A mammoth tusk at the Stone Age 'kill site/artist's illustration of a woolly mammoth (ASFiNAG/iStock/Aunt_Spray)
Posted on 09/09/2018 12:22:53 PM PDT by ETL
Archaeologists in Austria have uncovered a gruesome ‘kill site’ where Stone Age people slaughtered mammoths.
The site, which was found during construction of a new bypass in Drasenhofen on the Czech border, contains mammoth tusks and bones. The remains have been dated to between 18,000 and 28,000 years ago.
“This Paleolithic 'kill site' is the first one in Austria that has been excavated and analyzed according to the latest methods,” said Martin Krenn of Austria’s Federal Monuments Office, in a statement. “It gives us a sensational view of the way of life of the Palaeolithic people.”
An early Bronze Age settlement dating from about 2,300 B.C. to 1,800 B.C. has also been found in the area, which is likely linked to the cemetery. A number of storage pits and the remains of houses have been discovered, including a large building measuring 65.6 feet by 20 feet.
The ‘kill site’ is the latest find to shed fascinating new light on the prehistoric era. The perfectly-preserved remains of a now-extinct prehistoric horse, for example, were recently discovered in permafrost in the Siberian region of Yakutia.
Scientists are analyzing the remains, estimated to be 30,000 to 40,000 years old, in an effort to clone the animal.
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Cue PETA demanding a month of morning...complete with speeches by algore.Michael Moore...
BBQ tonight!
“The ‘kill site’ covers 172 square feet”
Smaller than a one-car garage.
Next time I step on a bug, I’ll think of my footprint as a kill-site.
Surely, something was lost in the translation from German (or “Austrian” if you are Obama LOL). Maybe they meant 170 square acres, because they also mentioned multiple buildings and structures. Typical journalism.
Gruesome or not, I am grateful that paleolithic humans found an efficient way of killing mammoths.
Those people may have been my ancestors. If they were not warm and well fed, I might not be typing this today.
"...kill zone..."
Woods
I just knew it had to be
Hi X300 gg father
Good shooting
Top that dirt cultures
"You'd think there was something better to go with the Chateau Latour but there isn't..."
Oh Noes! People hunted to survive? How shocking.
Thank God there are no “kill sites” at the Piggly Wiggly and I can get a croissant and a latte at the Starbucks :)
In Darke County Ohio, there is a sinkhole north of Greenville on St. Rte. 49 at the RR crossing. A quarter mile east is a farm where prehistoric digs have quietly taken place for 40 years or more.
The second picture makes me think someone said, “Hold my fermented mares milk and watch this ...”
Lol!
Would be great to own the property, both in terms of potential profit and simple interest.
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