African Ape in Iron Age Ireland? June 19, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Prehistoric
So here’s a teaser. The Barbary ape is an African primate whose only toehold on the European continent is at Gibraltar, where a tiny population has survived into modern times. How, then, did a Barbary Ape get to Co Armagh in Northern Ireland in the Iron Age? Archaeologists have waxed lyrical over the find of […]