“Discover the Secrets of the Ice Age: Archaeologists in Austria Unearth a 25,000-Year-Old Mammoth Graveyard!”
“The site is highly interesting and relevant because it is the youngest site in Central Europe that shows large accumulations of mammoth bones,” Händel told All That’s Interesting. “Given the setting and sediment context, there was no serious post-occupational movement of material, so that everything we find is basically just as the hunter-gatherers left it behind 25,000 years ago.”
The Langmannersdorf an der Perschling site in Austria is thus something of a time machine, allowing modern humans to look back at a time 25,000 years ago when mammoths thundered across the European plains and bands of determined hunters followed in their wake.
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