[Article déjà publié le 5 août 2024]
Mammoths, but not only !
Since 2019, the Cerney Wick mammouth cemetery has screened by archaeologists and paleontologists. And if the Steppe mammoth, the ancestor of the woolly mammoth, was the first species highlighted in this 220,000 -year prehistoric necropolis, other elements have risen to the surface recently.
Indeed, according to the BBC, new excavations revealed that the excavation site contained, in addition to new mammoth bones, also axes passed by the hands of Neanderthal, bison bones as well as shark fins.
In detail, the British media reports mammoths, shoulder bone, defenses, half a bison skull and one side of Bison.
“” ” We found much more than expected »
From a mammoth cemetery, a whole part of the prehistory opened in front of the researchers. And Dr. Neville Hollingworth, who leads the excavations with his wife Sally said he was “breathtaking” by these new discoveries.
“” “You never know what we are going to find but I had a feeling compared to this excavation and we found much more than we had planned.“He told the BBC.
In addition to the different fossils, the researchers were able to highlight how the bones of mammoths and other species could be trapped and stay there. It is quite simply because the excavation site was most certainly a river or a river and that over time, these elements of the past have remained trapped in the bed and the rocks of the river.
Multi -generational experience
If the excavation of the mammoths cemetery makes it possible to excavate fossils dating from several hundred thousand years and to reveal the species, human and animal, which surveyed this part of the world, it is also a formidable experience for apprentice paleontologists and archaeologists.
Indeed, if the excavations are obviously directed by specialists and in particular by Doctor Neville Hollingworth, described by the University of Birmingham where he works as “A field geologist who has a penchant for the discovery of exceptional fossils”, They welcome a large population of students.
“” “There is nothing like this nowhere, maybe even in the world. Participating it so early in my career is invaluable.“Declared a student from the University of Bristol at the BBC.
On Monday, August 5, the excavations will end and all the excavated fossils of the mammoth cemetery will now be studied from top to bottom. Currently, there is nothing to say that the site will be searched a third time.
Source : Bbc
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