The brain matter can be seen as a dark area at the top of the brainPosted on 12/12/2008 8:17:03 AM PST by BGHater
Archaeologists have found the remains of what could be Britain's oldest surviving human brain.
The team, excavating a York University site, discovered a skull containing a yellow substance which scans showed to be shrunken, but brain-shaped.
Brains consist of fatty tissue which microbes in the soil would absorb, so neurologists believe the find could be some kind of fossilised brain.
The skull was found in an area first farmed more than 2,000 years ago.
More tests will now be done to establish what it is actually made of.
The team from York Archaeological Trust had been commissioned by the university to carry out an exploratory dig at Heslington East, where campus extension work is under way.
The skull was discovered in an area of extensive prehistoric farming landscape of fields, trackways and buildings dating back to at least 300 BC.
Preservation
The archaeologists believe the skull, which was found on its own in a muddy pit, may have been a ritual offering.
It was taken to the University of York where CT scans were used to look at the skull's contents.
Philip Duffey, the consultant neurologist who carried out the scans, said the find was "amazing".
"It's exciting that scanning has shown structures which appear to be unequivocally of brain origin.
The brain matter can be seen as a dark area at the top of the brain
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Ping.
Helen Thomas ? ;)
I know. Let’s put it in the body of a seven foot behemoth and reanimate it.
The dimensions shown in the pic would be just about right...:)
The Queen’s?
;^)
the find could be some kind of fossilised brain. .................. The making of a great Sci Fi plot, but things that become science fiction can eventually become fact.
The brain like a computer stores fact, we have memories stored, maybe someday in the far future man will be able to take old brain mater and convert in into a visual record. Our eyes record events and we can still picture them in our minds years later. We don’t see it now, and maybe we can’t believe it could happen, but in the year 20008? Who knows?
“I think it’s time to buy a new brain!”
/MontePython
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I was thinking the same thing!!!
The team, excavating a York University site, discovered a skull containing a yellow substance which scans showed to be shrunken, but brain-shaped.If it's not grey, it's not brain matter. Yellow signifies something else ...
Scientists soaked the brain in warm salt water to rehydrate and then attached electrodes to it. As the the electricity ran through it the brain began to pulsate and function again. But then the experiment was stopped as U.K. scientists could think of no use for a fully functioning brain.
It's French?
According to the Mayan calendar, we only have until 2012!
Doooh!
They found someone with a BRAIN in England?
That’s news.
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