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A winemaker in Austria has discovered C of mammoth bones underneath his wine-coloured basement .
Andreas Pernerstorfer came across the bones in March while renovating his cellar in the village of Gobelsburg , NW of Vienna , CNNreported . At first , he mistook a bone for wood .
Archaeologist Hannah Parow-Souchon (right) explains the mammoth bone discovery to Councillor Sonja Fragner (center) and wine cellar owner Andreas Pernerstorfer (left).
" I thought it was just a piece of Natalie Wood left by my granddad , " Pernerstorfer secernate the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ( ORF ) , according toBBC News . " But then I dug it out a bit , and then I recall that in the past tense , my grandad sound out he had get teeth . And then I immediately thought it was a mammoth . "
Researchers bring out around 300 bones from at least three individual mammoth . A comparable find of bones and human artifact was made in a neighboring cellar 150 years ago , according to astatementreleased by the Austrian Archaeological Institute ( OeAI ) , part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .
Researchers from the OeAI are excavate the bones and think the two basement probably sit on the same ancient site , Smithsonian Magazinereported . But the new discovery is an " archaeological sensation , " accord to the program line .
Austrian Archaeological Institute scientist Marc Händel uncovers mammoth bones in the wine cellar.
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" Such a dumb bone layer of mammoth is rare,“Hannah Parow - Souchon , an archaeologist at the OeAI , said in the statement . " It ’s the first time we ’ve been able to look into something like this in Austria using modern methods . "
The team judge the bones were between 30,000 and 40,000 age old . They also determine stone artifacts and charcoal grey in the wine root cellar , harmonise to the statement .
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There are still a number of unknowns that researcher are trying to piece together , include how the near - complete remains of the mammoth terminate up so near to one another . One possible explanation is that homo hound the three animals .
" We experience that humans hunted mammoths , but we still know very slight about how they did it , " Parow - Souchon said in the affirmation .
mankind might have kill the mammoth by chasing them to the site and setting a maw for them there , according to the argument .
