By ARIAJ MUHARRAM
Staff writer
On February 13th of 2022, a man by the name of Simon Hunt found an upper leg bone that could possibly be over 5,000 years old on the river Thames in London. The man feared the worst because he didn’t know whether it was an old or new bone, but luckily after carbon dating, it was indicated to be 5,000 or more years old. The bone is currently at Hunt’s home, kept safe from anyone’s reach. The bone seems to have been from around 2500 BC during the late British Neolithic era, which means this bone is older than Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza and possibly older than the Stonehenge in the UK. The bone has been estimated to belong to a person who is around 170cm tall, but no one knows if it belonged to a female or male. Hunt believes that it could have been well preserved in mud and was disturbed by the river which led it to London. The mud of the Thames is anaerobic, which means its oxygen levels are very low making it a good place/environment to preserve things like artifacts or other things, which doesn’t make Hunt’s statement/theory sound out of the ordinary.