New carbon datings have left archeologists puzzled over who placed elk bones in a bog 11,000 years ago. (Photo: Geert Brovad)
New carbon datings have left archeologists puzzled over who placed elk bones in a bog 11,000 years ago. (Photo: Geert Brovad)
Now there you go again Dr. Smith. How were those ages determined? Please be specific. Thank you.
elk bones.
is that a new dog chew by purina ?
perhaps poaching elk from the manor lord was best dealt with by hiding the bones in the bog ?
I have a theory.
—Anne Elk
Would know those bones anywhere. That is Great (X 200 generations or so) Uncle Thunderhooves, Grand Exalted Ruler of Lundby Bog, Zealand. So THAT’S What happened to him!
‘They have no reasons why the elk bones were there’.
A new hypothesis: They were offerings of thanks from the previous hunt, and for as much or more, as they had hunted that season, for the next season.
Bogs have become a place where they have found articles, tools, bones, and a few bodies, and all show signs of sacrifce. Why not elk bones?
Bog = stone age trash can.
Solved.
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....
