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muriel_volestrangler

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Wed May 22, 2024, 04:03 PM May 2024

Austrian man discovers mammoth bones in wine cellar

A man who was renovating his wine cellar in Austria has made an extraordinary discovery. It wasn't a vintage red or white - but the remains of prehistoric mammoths.
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The winemaker, Andreas Pernerstorfer, came across a number of huge bones, buried deep in his wine cellar in the village of Gobelsburg, in the district of Krems, west of Vienna.
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“I thought it was just a piece of wood left by my grandfather. But then I dug it out a bit and then I remembered that in the past my grandfather said he had found teeth. And then I immediately thought it was a mammoth," he said.
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Archaeologists Thomas Einwögerer and Hannah Parow-Souchon say that stone artefacts and charcoal found at the site indicate that the bones are between 30,000 and 40,000 years old.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gg87kwl0eo
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Austrian man discovers mammoth bones in wine cellar (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler May 2024 OP
How cool is that? Bayard May 2024 #1

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