Spectacular find bones bear in Zeeland – Dutch Newspaper

 
 

 

(AP) – THE HAGUE (AP) – Archaeologists have in a peat layer in a dune valley in Zeeland found bones of a young brown bear. According to them, the spectacular discovery, because no sooner bones of a bear are found in the province. That made Forestry Commission announced on Wednesday.

Members of the Association of Volunteers in Archaeology (AWN) made the discovery in March on the Kop van Schouwen. According to a manager of the Forestry bones probably date from the twelfth century when Schouwen already inhabited by people. ,, We did not think there would then be bears. That makes the find even more fun, ” said the manager.

So far, he said, was well known that in the tenth to twelfth century bears appeared in the Ardennes. In 1940 in New Zealand already found a bear tooth, but who had people from elsewhere may be included. The discovery of bones indicates that there have actually been living bears.