Posted on 07/10/2014 10:03:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Someone put elk bones in a bog several thousand years ago -- but archaeologists have no clue who it was... when the bones of several elks were excavated from Lundby bog in south Zealand in 1999, the archaeologists dated some of the animal remains back to sometime between 9,400 and 9,300 BC.
Recently, however, the archaeologists did a new carbon 14 dating on some of the bones which revealed that they dated back to between 9,873 and 9,676 BC.
These elk bones were clearly not buried in the bog over a short period, as originally thought, but were placed there over several centuries and this surprised the archaeologists...
An important clue to who buried the elks comes from an axe made from an elk antler found in the bog. According to the archaeologists, this kind of tool is only known from the Maglemosean culture who lived between 9,000 and 6,400 BC. Only problem is theres never been discovered a settlement which dates back to the time the elk bones were placed in the bog.
There are plenty of settlements in the vicinity of the bog from the Mesolithic period around 12,800 and 3,900 BC but none of these settlements are as old as the oldest elk bones, says Pedersen. Weve examined the bog many times and weve not been able to localise any settlements -- but we assume they are there -- somewhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenordic.com ...
An Elk in Europe is a moose in North America. So I am assuming they’re actually moose bones, not wapiti bones?
The North America wapiti we call an elk is called a red stag in Europe (Hartz in German).
I once belonged to the US military’s Kaiserslautern Rod and Gun Club in Germany, and to get a German hunting license you had to just about be a biologist on European game animals to pass the licensing test....
Hirsch in German... Not hartz.
Old man syndrome.
I stand corrected; so it is. I saw Zealand, and my brain automatically inserted “New”.
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