Britain's Oldest Brain

[Curator Kid]

York Archaeologists think they've found evidence for the oldest known brain in Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7777385.stm

I reckon it should be transplanted into a robotic body so it can go on a CGI-heavy destructive rampage! :face-approve:

[Windbag]

Nice one Rachel!

[BAJR Host]

yueeeeeeeeeeeek

"Gie's a Job.."
Prof. 'Dolly' Parton

[Dirty Dave Lincoln]

I wonder if they could get a full DNA sequence from it.
Imagine the "Jurasic park" scenario of recreating an IA person:face-huh:

[kevin wooldridge]

Is it really the oldest though? Don't various 'bog bodies' have organ preservation too....

[Paul Belford]

Not sure if this is the oldest, but I have certainly encountered younger ones. One was on a site I worked on in Hull in the 1990s - a medieval friary with curious bodies in various stages of preservation - of which the 'brain' was one of many interesting finds. Frustratingly the site still seems to be unpublished. The other brain (and one encountered personally) was in a waterlogged 1830s burial in Sheffield about 10 years ago.

[1man1desk]

Posted by Kevin Wooldridge:
quote:Is it really the oldest though? Don't various 'bog bodies' have organ preservation too....Actually, this one read as if there isn't necessarily any organ preservation - possibly just a cast of the brain (described as a 'fossil').

1man1desk

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