When Huge Hyaenas Hunted Big Game Across Yorkshire – Fri 26 Sep 2014
Lecture by Professor Patrick Boylan – Part of YorNight
The 1821 recognition by Professor William Buckland of the world’s first fossil hyaena den in Kirkdale Cave, near Kirby Moorside, was a scientific sensation around the scientific world. Since then very many others have been identified in many other parts of the world, as well as others elsewhere in Yorkshire, all directly comparable with what Professor
Adam Sedgwick named “our Yorkshire Hyaenopolis”. Professor Patrick Boylan of City University London, is President of the Yorkshire Geological Society, and Kirkdale Cave and similar Pleistocene sites elsewhere have been one of his major research interests for over 40 years.
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Funded by the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Framework Programme H2020 (2014-2020) by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. Directorate-General for Education and Culture. European Commission under Grant Agreement No. 633344Event details
Date
Friday 26 September 2014, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Venue
Yorkshire Museum,
Museum Gardens
York
North Yorkshire
YO1 7FR