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https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-69-187-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-69-187-2020
Research article
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21 Oct 2020
Research article |  | 21 Oct 2020

Cave finds indicate elk (Alces alces) hunting during the Late Iron Age in the Bavarian Alps

Kerstin Pasda, Matthias López Correa, Philipp Stojakowits, Bernhard Häck, Jérôme Prieto, Najat al-Fudhaili, and Christoph Mayr

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The radiocarbon dating of Late Iron Age origin and anthropogenic traces such as cut marks on bones of a male elk skeleton found by a local resident in a pit cave prove an archaeological origin. So far known archaeological settlements are several tens of kilometres apart from the finds. The location and the dating are unique in that they are the first evidence of elk hunting during the Late Iron Age in the Bavarian Alps.