It wasn’t a vintage red or white, but vintage it was. A man renovating his wine cellar in Austria discovered mammoth remains from the prehistoric era.The find has been called “sensational” by the team at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences that has been tasked with digging up the remains found in the village of Gobelsburg, just west of the country’s capital, Vienna.“Our older and more experienced team members there had never seen something like that before, and they have seen a lot,” Hannah Parow-Souchon, a member of the team, told NBC News Thursday.Stone artifacts and charcoal at the site indicate the bones are between 30,000 and 40,000 years old, she added.Winemaker Andreas Pernerstorfer told the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation that he discovered them in March while renovating his cellar.“I thought it was just a piece of wood left by my grandfather,” he said. “But then I dug it out a bit and then I remembered that in the past my grandfather said he had found teeth. And then I immediately thought it was a mammoth.”an Austrian winegrower has discovered mammoth bones that are approximately 30,000 to 40,000 years old in his wine cellar in Gobelsburg, Austria. (Yannik Merkl / OeAW-OeAI)After the find was reported to the institute, Parow-Souchon said she worked with her colleagues to painstakingly uncover each bone, adding that they gradually uncovered multiple interlocking skeletal structures.While other comparable sites have been discovered in Austria and neighboring countries, most of them were excavated at least 100 years ago and have largely been lost to modern research, the Austri …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnIt wasn’t a vintage red or white, but vintage it was. A man renovating his wine cellar in Austria discovered mammoth remains from the prehistoric era.The find has been called “sensational” by the team at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences that has been tasked with digging up the remains found in the village of Gobelsburg, just west of the country’s capital, Vienna.“Our older and more experienced team members there had never seen something like that before, and they have seen a lot,” Hannah Parow-Souchon, a member of the team, told NBC News Thursday.Stone artifacts and charcoal at the site indicate the bones are between 30,000 and 40,000 years old, she added.Winemaker Andreas Pernerstorfer told the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation that he discovered them in March while renovating his cellar.“I thought it was just a piece of wood left by my grandfather,” he said. “But then I dug it out a bit and then I remembered that in the past my grandfather said he had found teeth. And then I immediately thought it was a mammoth.”an Austrian winegrower has discovered mammoth bones that are approximately 30,000 to 40,000 years old in his wine cellar in Gobelsburg, Austria. (Yannik Merkl / OeAW-OeAI)After the find was reported to the institute, Parow-Souchon said she worked with her colleagues to painstakingly uncover each bone, adding that they gradually uncovered multiple interlocking skeletal structures.While other comparable sites have been discovered in Austria and neighboring countries, most of them were excavated at least 100 years ago and have largely been lost to modern research, the Austri …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
