Kerry Cow bones identified as bear and wild boar, rewriting Ireland and Britain’s early farming history

A new study has overturned a long-held idea about when farming reached Ireland. Bone fragments from Ferriter’s Cove, once seen as the earliest signs of domestic cattle, came from a bear and a wild boar. Ferriter’s Cove sits on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry. Archaeologists excavated the site during the 1980s and 1990s. Several […]