25,000-Year-Old Mammoth Bones Found in Austria Shed Light on Ancient Hunting Practices

Mammoths are still talked about, especially with the many fossil remains that have been constantly found in recent years. Resemblance to current elephants, woolly mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius In Latin, had long curved defenses and measured up to 3.5 meters high. Having lived in Eurasia and North America, this animal is considered to be the representative of mammals of the ice age, a period which lasted from 115,000 to 11,700 years before our era.

Recently, the bones of five 25,000 -year -old mammoths were discovered by a team of Archaeologists from the Austrian Science Academy (Öaw), in Langmannersdorf, located about 65 kilometers west of Vienna in Austria. According to researchers, the bones and defenses of these extinct mammals were found in two different areas, which were 15 meters from each other. The state of these remains show that man was not so tender as that with these animals.

The mammoths chased for their ivories

According to LiveScience, one of the areas contained mammoth bones from several stacked individuals. Most of these remains had human tool scars. In the second area, the researchers discovered fragments and whole remains of defenses, which were separated from the bones.

In both cases, it shows that man used to hunt and kill mammoths, especially for their ivory defenses. It must be said that ivory was used to make weapons and tools. The whole body of the mammoth was used by humans. Their flesh served as food, bones to make tools and shelters, or even their skin was used to warm up.

The Langmannersdorf site known for decades

According to the press release from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the excavations of Langmannersdorf are part of the European Research Project Mamba (Exploring Mammoth Bone Accumulations in Central Europe), which aims to learn more about hunting and the use of mammoths by man and understanding the development of mammoth populations.

The Langmannersdorf excavation site is recognized worldwide. Walked out for the first time between 1904 and 1907, the researchers had revealed the existence of two prehistoric basic camps, and the remains of mammoths dating from around 25,000 years, when the herds of mammoths were numerous in Central Europe.

Source: LiveSciencece