The bog body found by Jason Phelan at the Bord Na Mona Cashel Bog, in Co Laois. The body is estimated to be over 4,000 years old, and is possibly the result of a human sacrifice. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times.
Helen Thomas?
Not quite right about oldest to date— but the Windover Bog find in Titusville, FL in 1984 was dated 7,990 years to 8,120 years, plus or minus 70 years.
What’s even more amazing, preserved brain tissue was found in some 91 skulls, the first from a woman of 45 years old at death. DNA sequencing was done.
State of FL allocated almost $1 Mil for excavation. Still being studied today, archived at FSU Archeaology. The oldest skeletons aged to 60 plus years refuting early death conjectures of ancient man. Truly an amazing find by a backhoe operator clearing a muck pond, who noticed “rocks” that turned out to be skulls!
http://www.nbbd.com/godo/history/windover/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windover_Archaeological_Site
Genetic investigation would be very interesting as this body may be pre-celtic. Who were these people?
It would be great if we could start getting some DNA from these finds — maybe the bone marrow — especially the Irish finds. I’d be interested in the results from comparing it to modern lines.
More on the FL Windover Bog discovery:
The Windover Bog Peopole: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teh90FTIKec
and regarding the DNA, which all samples contained European like DNA...speculating they came across the much reduced in width Atlantic ocean (Ice Age reduced seas):
DNA of the Windover Bog People: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbayBEbIEwc
Probably a Bridgeport Milling machine. 
Amazing. County Laois was formerly known as County Queens - and I have great great great grandparents on my paternal side that are from that county ...
What I would like to see is DNA sequencing of THESE Titusville, FL Windover bog people vs. “celtic” bog people of this Laois find. We might be surprised to learn....shock of shocks (not— see: Kennewick Man) that so called Europeans (maybe— more precisely Celtic peoples as in most of the Celtic migration— Gaul to Spanish peninsula to Ireland to Scotland) were already in N. America when the “land bridge” “native-Americans” crossed over from Siberia.
The genetics of all this is freaking out the PC crowd and the PC industry of native-American “here first” claims. You know, the indian casinos then are just political payoff for the “genocide” from the “whites”. When what ought to happen is we find descendents from the European genetic tribes that these “native Americans” wiped out in THEIR genocide, and uh- give them the casinos LOL!!.
There is no imprimatur to do anything like this, politically— far better for the dems to advocate open immigration and the creation of Aztlan from a “pure” toltec/olmec heritage of damned cannibals who wiped out the Anasazi. No problem for dems and rinos who specialize in cannibalization— they eat their own especially targeting the dwindling middle class. Rant off— no more coffee LOL.
