USER:ABYSSAL PREHISTORY OF EUROPE DYK 4

... that the extinct wasp Deinodryinus areolatus is one of two Deinodryinus species known from Baltic amber?
...that geologist T.H. Clark retired from McGill University in Quebec, Canada, at the age of 100, after teaching for 69 years?
...that the Züschen tomb (pictured) and the Lohra tomb in Hesse, Germany, are prehistoric gallery graves belonging to the Late Neolithic Wartberg culture?
... that the Swimming Reindeer (pictured), a 13,000-year-old Ice Age sculpture, was originally thought to be two separate reindeer sculptures until Henri Breuil realised they fitted together?
... that the extinct bivalve subfamily Praenuculinae can be told apart from its sister subfamily by looking at teeth?

...that at Bougon, a prehistoric burial mound in France, archeologists found the skull of a man who had undergone three trepanations during his lifetime?
... that the geology of the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland includes many Devonian era Old Red Sandstone rock formations, such as the Old Man of Hoy (pictured)?
... that the Paleozoic monoplacophoran Pilina unguis was twice as large as any known living monoplacophoran?
...that the Stora Alvaret, a World Heritage Site on the island of Öland, Sweden, has rich biodiversity, even though the soil mantle on this 26,000 hectare limestone barren is less than two centimeters deep?
...that the 25,000-year-old Venus of Brassempouy (pictured) is one of the oldest known realistic depictions of a human face?

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