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To add some context, the team had established roughly where the remains should be and discovered a skeleton in place; so while neither the DNA test nor the dati
by timthorn 14y ago
To add some context, the team had established roughly where the remains should be and discovered a skeleton in place; so while neither the DNA test nor the dating could be conclusive, when added to the contextual knowledge the level of confidence is (in the team's language) beyond reasonable doubt.
- NickPollard 14y agoAlso (from the article) the state of the body - that it had wounds consistent with descriptions of Richard's death, that the wounds were confirmed to have been inflicted pre-mortem, and that the other general characteristics of the skeleton were consistent with our knowledge of Richard. The confluence of factors is what allows such a high probability to be ascribed to the hypothesis.
- hudibras 14y agoThe University of Leicester website on the dig (http://www.le.ac.uk/richardiii/archaeology/wherewedug.html http://www.le.ac.uk/richardiii/archaeology/wherewedug.html) shows that they were able to determine exactly where the remains should have been buried. Pretty amazing.