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You are quite correct, Arthur - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2994130.stm
However I don't think that that makes the Cresswell engraving a fake. Perhaps the artist did not intend the animal to be an ibex - that may just be a modern interpretation - it could quite easily be a drawing of the wild cattle that were around at the time - like the aurochs. Another drawing at Cresswell has been interpreted as two birds while some one else declares that they are female dancers. Who really knows for certain? Today, ibex are only found on very high mountains, but it is not impossible that they were in Britain after the Ice Age. No evidence of their presence has been found yet, but that doesn't mean that they were never here. Pehaps the ibex gave us the legend of the unicorn and perhaps tomorrow, or the day after, an ibex skull will be found somewhere in Britain.
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