'Hybrid beasts' discovered: animal remains combined by Prehistoric people

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Such beasts were more synonymous with ancient Mediterrenean cultures, who combined remains of animals to form mythical creatures. Examples included the half-lion, half-goat chimera or the half-lion, half-eagle griffin.

But similar remains were found in the UK in Winterborne Kingston, Dorset. The startling find raised questions about the possibility that Britain’s ancient Celtic population had hybrid-animal monster myths similar to those of the ancient Greeks, and Egyptians.

The bones hinted at the possibility Iron Age Britons rearranged remains in order to create hybrid beasts.

One of the strangest discoveries saw animal remains paired with a human skeleton.

Source: https://nytimespost.com/archaeology-breakthrough-hybrid-beasts-discovered-shedding-new-light-on-bloody-burial/

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[AphroditeLaydee 1,230]

how do we know the remains were simply combined by prehistoric people and not actual remains of actual hybrid animals? 

i know, i'm sorry it might be a stupid question. i am not at all informed on this topic matter but it's very interesting! 

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13 minutes ago, AphroditeLaydee said:

how do we know the remains were simply combined by prehistoric people and not actual remains of actual hybrid animals? 

i know, i'm sorry it might be a stupid question. i am not at all informed on this topic matter but it's very interesting! 

They would have known. Biologists looking at them and analysing their shape or componets or carbon-dating them could easily identify what species belonged to. Sometimes I assume it could be obvious to the naked eye for a biologist to recognize the bone of a horse or dog.

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A hybrid can withstand these things