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Archaeologists Uncover a Medieval Floor Made of Bones

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Municipal archaeologists in the Dutch city of Alkmaar have uncovered a historic floor partially tiled with animal bones.

The bones are parts of cattle metacarpals and metatarsals, and were all cut to the same size.

Experts are now wondering whether this may have been a common 15th-century flooring solution or design in the Netherlands .

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