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A winemaker in Austria has discovered one C of gigantic bone underneath his vino cellar .
Andreas Pernerstorfer come across the pearl in March while renovating his basement in the village of Gobelsburg , northwest 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 think it was just a piece of wood left by my grandfather , " Pernerstorfer told the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ( ORF ) , allot toBBC News . " But then I dig it out a chip , and then I remembered that in the yesteryear , my grandad articulate he had regain teeth . And then I instantly thought it was a mammoth . "
Researchers reveal around 300 pearl from at least three individual mammoths . A comparable discovery of bones and human artefact was made in a neighboring cellar 150 old age ago , fit in to astatementreleased by the Austrian Archaeological Institute ( OeAI ) , part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .
Researchers from the OeAI are excavating the bones and think the two cellars likely sit on the same ancient internet site , Smithsonian Magazinereported . But the fresh discovery is an " archaeologic sensation , " according to the program line .
Austrian Archaeological Institute scientist Marc Händel uncovers mammoth bones in the wine cellar.
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" Such a dense os layer of mammoths is rare,“Hannah Parow - Souchon , an archeologist at the OeAI , said in the statement . " It ’s the first time we ’ve been capable to investigate something like this in Austria using mod methods . "
The squad gauge the finger cymbals were between 30,000 and 40,000 year erstwhile . They also found stone artifacts and charcoal in the wine wine cellar , harmonise to the statement .
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There are still a telephone number of unknowns that researchers are sample to piece together , including how the nigh - complete remains of the mammoth ended up so near to one another . One possible explanation is that human beings hunted the three beast .
" We know that human race hunted mammoths , but we still know very fiddling about how they did it , " Parow - Souchon enounce in the statement .
humankind might have killed the mammoth by track them to the web site and setting a trap for them there , according to the statement .
