Fossil bones from the North Sea: Radiocarbon dating

The North Sea is a unique heritage site yielding a large amount of palaeontological and archaeological data. Here we report and discuss 14C dates of fossil bone samples from the North Sea. About 2/3 of these are Pleistocene in age; many dates are from extinct species, in particular the woolly mammoth. About 1/3 of the samples date to the Holocene. The latter include human bones, mostly (sub)recent but also including an unique Mesolithic dataset.