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Gruesome mammoth 'kill site' discovered
FoxNews.com/Science ^
| Sept 7, 2018
| James Rogers
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 Austrias 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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Science
KEYWORDS: austria; bbq; bc; bcera; bones; cloning; godsgravesglyphs; mammoth; mammoths; mastodon; mastodons; woollymammoth
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To: Chode
Not soon enough IMO ! Actually Im thinking dead Mammoths would do a better job than gopeez do.
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posted on
09/09/2018 6:51:08 PM PDT
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mabarker1
(congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
To: mabarker1
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posted on
09/09/2018 8:04:19 PM PDT
by
Chode
( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
To: ETL
Odd that they didn’t use the tusks for something........................
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posted on
09/10/2018 6:18:16 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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To: Blue Jays
People were tougher back then.................
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posted on
09/10/2018 6:19:31 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon.......Timelines change. Aug 16)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/10/2018 6:25:33 AM PDT
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ETL
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To: ETL
Was that an actual find or merely the speculation of a modern day museum director?................
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posted on
09/10/2018 6:27:19 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
I don’t know. Should be easy enough to find out if they used tusks in this way. Don’t have time now to check.
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09/10/2018 6:33:48 AM PDT
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ETL
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To: ETL
That ‘shelter’ would leak like a sieve in summer and you would freeze to death in winter..........
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09/10/2018 6:55:04 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Neanderthals built homes with mammoth bones
Neanderthals were not quite the primitive cavemen they are often portrayed to be new research has revealed that they built homes out of mammoth bones.Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 44,000 year old Neanderthal building that was constructed using the bones from mammoths.
The circular building, which was up to 26 feet across at its widest point, is believed to be earliest example of domestic dwelling built from bone.
Neanderthals, which died out around 30,000 years ago, were initially thought to have been relatively primitive nomads that lived in natural caves for shelter.
The new findings, however, suggest these ancient human ancestors had settled in areas to the degree that they built structures where they lived for extended periods of time.
Analysis by researchers from the Muséum National dHistories Naturelle in Paris also found that many of the bones had been decorated with carvings and ochre pigments.
Laëtitia Demay, an archaeologist who led the research, said: It appears that Neanderthals were the oldest known humans who used mammoth bones to build a dwelling structure.
This mammoth bone structure could be described as the basement of a wooden cover or as a windscreen.
Neanderthals purposely chose large bones of the largest available mammal, the woolly mammoth, to build a structure.
The mammoth bones have been deliberately selected long and flat bones, tusks and connected vertebrae and were circularly arranged.
The use of bones as building elements can be appreciated as anticipation of climatic variations. Under a cold climate in an open environment, the lack of wood led humans to use bones to build protections against the wind.
The bone structure was found near the town of Molodova in eastern Ukraine on a site that was first discovered in 1984. It was constructed of 116 large bones including mammoth skulls, jaws, 14 tusks and leg bones.
Inside at least 25 hearths filled with ash were also discovered, suggesting it had been used for some time.
The researchers believe that the Neanderthals both hunted and killed the mammoths for meat before using their bones but also collected some of the bones from animals that had died of natural causes.
The findings, which are to be published in the scientific journal Quaternary International add to the growing view that Neanderthals were in fact quite advanced humans who had their own culture and may have even used language to communicate.
The oldest known remains of a building ever discovered, however, are more than 500,000 years old, built by the ancient human ancestor Homo erectus on a hillside outside Tokyo using wooden posts sunk into the ground.
Simon Underdown, a senior lecturer in biological anthropology who researches Neanderthals at Oxford Brookes University, said: Its another piece in the newly emerging Neanderthal jigsaw puzzle.
Far from being the stupid cavemen of popular image its becoming increasingly clear the Neanderthals were a highly sophisticated species of human.
We can now add shelter building to the list of advanced behaviours that includes burying the dead, spoken language, cooking and wearing jewellery.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/8963177/Neanderthals-built-homes-with-mammoth-bones.html
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09/10/2018 7:09:28 AM PDT
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ETL
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Oldest known Neanderthal house found in Ukraine made from woolly mammoth bones
Why do discoveries of ancient houses make me so happy? A 44,000 year old Neanderthal bone house has been found near Moldova in Eastern Ukraine.
Its a nearly circular structure made from woolly mammoth bone, and its 26 feet wide at its widest point thats pretty substantial, the same width as the little church I live in. The bone house is delicately decorated with carvings and ochre pigments. 25 hearths were unearthed inside, suggesting it was inhabited over a long period of time.
Now it appears Neanderthals werent really the stupid cavemen we thought they were: evidence is growing that they cooked vegetables, buried their dead, produced jewelry and sophisticated tool sets, and probably had language.
They ostensibly disappeared just 10,000 yeas after modern man arrived in Europe, but it seems likely that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred. More on that here.
The use of bone is likely due to its availability as well as to a scarcity of wood. There are no photographs of the dig site yet. By the way, the artists rendering above clearly shows a modern human, not a Neanderthal. Nice furs. Via the Telegraph and Digital Journal.
Laëtitia Demay, an archaeologist who led the research, said: It appears that Neanderthals were the oldest known humans who used mammoth bones to build a dwelling structure.
This mammoth bone structure could be described as the basement of a wooden cover or as a windscreen.
Neanderthals purposely chose large bones of the largest available mammal, the woolly mammoth, to build a structure.
The mammoth bones have been deliberately selected long and flat bones, tusks and connected vertebrae and were circularly arranged.
The use of bones as building elements can be appreciated as anticipation of climatic variations. Under a cold climate in an open environment, the lack of wood led humans to use bones to build protections against the wind.
The bone structure
was constructed of 116 large bones including mammoth skulls, jaws, 14 tusks and leg bones.
By the way, this is by no means the oldest hominid-built structure in the world. A simple wooden structure found outside Tokyo was built 500,000 years ago by Homo Erectus.
http://ounodesign.com/2011/12/22/neanderthal-house-mammoth-bones/
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posted on
09/10/2018 7:22:32 AM PDT
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ETL
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To: ETL
From the previous post...
The bone structure
was constructed of 116 large bones including mammoth skulls, jaws, 14 tusks and leg bones.
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posted on
09/10/2018 7:23:45 AM PDT
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ETL
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To: ETL
SO, that’s what happened to the Neanderthals .............
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posted on
09/10/2018 7:25:42 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
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09/10/2018 7:41:34 AM PDT
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ETL
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