Bear bone discovery re-writes human history in Ireland

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Bear bone discovery re-writes human history in Ireland

Analysis of a bear bone found in an Irish cave has provided evidence of human existence in Ireland 2,500 years earlier than previously thought, academics announced Sunday.

For decades, the earliest evidence of human life in Ireland dated from 8,000 BC.

But radiocarbon dating of a bear’s knee bone indicated it had been butchered by a human in about 10,500 BC—some 12,500 years ago and far earlier than the previous date.

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-bone-di...n-history.html