Dr Richard Jennings of LJMU Biological & Environmental Sciences just out of the cave with a bone for me to look at … it’s a metapodial bone from a brown bear!!! Royal Irish Academy funded Castlepook cave excavations 2024 just keeps on giving up the treasures 😁 #IrishCaveBones #IrishPalaeolithic #CaveArchaeology

Kelly kettle boiled the water for coffee and the last of the fire heating the tent :) Break time soon for the team at Castlepook cave excavations 2024! #coffeetime #IrishCaveBones #IrishPalaeolithic

#IrishPalaeolithic - Dowd & Carden 2016. First evidence of a Late Upper Palaeolithic human presence in Ireland. QSR. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…