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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 06:40 PM Dec 2015

2000-Year-Old Cat Pawprint Found on a Roof Tile

http://mentalfloss.com/article/66776/2000-year-old-cat-pawprint-found-roof-tile

An archaeologist at the Gloucester City Museum in the UK has uncovered evidence that even 2000 years ago, cats were determined to wreak havoc. A cat’s pawprint has been discovered on a roof tile was that first uncovered in Gloucester in 1969 and recently reexamined. Upon second look, the researcher spotted the small but telltale signs of cattitude.

The mischievous cat likely ran across the drying tegula tile around 100 CE. The town already has a stock of tiles covered in human and dog footprints, but very few cat-printed tiles have been found, a member of the city council told the BBC.

It’s been a good summer for ancient footprint discoveries. At the end of June, a Canadian university student uncovered a nearly 2000-year-old human footprint on a tile at Vindolanda, the site of an ancient Roman fort in England. The toe impressions were likely left by a kid living between 160 and 180 CE.


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2000-Year-Old Cat Pawprint Found on a Roof Tile (Original Post) KamaAina Dec 2015 OP
If only that tile was tin... Motown_Johnny Dec 2015 #1
dogs are just messier Angry Dragon Dec 2015 #2
So, hard evidence that cats have always been assholes. baldguy Dec 2015 #3
Nice post, Hitler! KamaAina Dec 2015 #6
They get around. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2015 #4
That's a pretty old cat pinboy3niner Dec 2015 #5
 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
1. If only that tile was tin...
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 06:46 PM
Dec 2015

then we would have had 2000 year old evidence of a "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (assuming the tin would have needed to have been hot for the print to be left).


Interesting that there were lots of dog prints but not so many cat prints.





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