Posted on 06/25/2009 7:21:15 AM PDT by NCDragon
NICOSIA, Cyprus Archeologists have discovered a water well in Cyprus that was built as long as 10,500 years ago, and the skeleton of a young woman at the bottom of it, an official said Wednesday.
Pavlos Flourentzos, the nation's top antiquities official, said the 16-foot (5-meter) deep cylindrical shaft was found last month at a construction site in Kissonerga, a village near the Mediterranean island nation's southwestern coast.
After the well dried up it apparently was used to dispose trash, and the items found in it included the poorly preserved skeleton of the young woman, animal bone fragments, worked flints, stone beads and pendants from the island's early Neolithic period, Flourentzos said.
The skeleton could be as old as the well itself, but archeologists don't know how the girl died or when and why the skeleton was left there, he said. Radiocarbon dating found the well is between 9,000 to 10,500 years old, he said.
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There’s a video tape that was recorded at the scene. I watched it seven days ago.
Ah hang on, the phone’s ringing.
Nawww. The Kennedys crawled out of the low end of the gene pool, not some deep well.
Oops! Forgot to add, The killer whale crawled out of a shallow tidal pool and left the girl to die.
Or, the well was abandoned after the water became rancid because there was a dead woman in it.
The skeleton could be as old as the well itself, but archeologists don't know how the girl died or when and why the skeleton was left there, he said. Radiocarbon dating found the well is between 9,000 to 10,500 years old, he said.
How about death by drowning? makes sense yeah? Why was the skeleton left there? Gezz, there's brain twister....
And carbon dating is completely inaccurate, and doesn't even work on things under 15,000 years old. For all they know, it's probably a 100 year old well.
Probably burned the mastodon roast again
I was thinking more along the lines of Bones!:)
Does she have any cisterns?
Do they suspect that this is the work of a serial killer?
“And carbon dating is completely inaccurate, and doesn’t even work on things under 15,000 years old. For all they know, it’s probably a 100 year old well. “
LOL!
LOL, not bad.
re: Talk about getting the shaft!
Thanks for jogging my memory. Made me head off to Napster and listen to Jerry Reed’s “She Got the Goldmine, I Got the Shaft”. I like the line, “They split it right down the middle, and she got the better half!”
GGG ping
you beat me to that reply LOL
Several cisterns apparently....The local dudes mentioned the size of the jugs they had seen
Damn you Red in Blue PA, damn you to hell!!!
For some reason, I’m thinking of the 300 movie.
An early ancestor of Jessica McClure, it would seem.
Maybe she was Jewish and they took Borat's lyrics literally.
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