In Langmannersdorf in Lower Austria, a slaughterhouse of the Stone Age has been discovered for Mammothen. When excavations lie on the place northeast of St. Pölten, the 25,000 -year remains of at least five mammoths and stone tools remain.
Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Öaw) made the impressive find. The researchers assume a few dozen of these animals, whose meat is used by gigantic hunters and whose ivory was processed.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the first finds of bones
The first excavations in the city of Perchling Langmannersdorf were already available to the municipality of Pertchling between 1904 and 1907 via the natural history Hofmuseum. At that time, people became aware of the site because residents of the village sold remarkably large bones that they had found in the area for years at a soap factory. In 1919/20, more systematic studies were carried out on a new excavation site. Two camps were discovered by gigantic hunters.
In February of this year, the team around Marc Handel once again got away from the historic locations. The researchers discovered two zones about 15 meters apart with bones on each other in different layers, between stone appliances or waste that is created during the production of the stone tools.
“Sort people somehow”
“There are no fully preserved skeletons at one of the two find zones. At one point the remains of at least three animals, including complete and segments, can be found, but almost no vertebrae and fewer long bones,” Handel said. The ivory may have been processed there and spearheads made of it. In the other point there was no ivory, but vertebral bodies and long bones of at least two mammoths. The ribs are missing in both areas. “So people sorted somehow,” said the archaeologist.
There are also indications for the old stones time settlement traces such as open fireplaces and pits. “The breakdown of a mammoth lasts. Meanwhile, people stay there and leave traces,” said Handel.
“Ideal space to dispose of mammoths”
25,000 years ago, shortly before the climax of the last ice age, mammoth herds of Central Europe. It is clear that they also used the current square near Langmannersdorf as a passage and pasture area. Händel points out that the landscape looked different at that time and was more structured: “There was clearly an ideal place to take the mammoth.
And that must have happened for a longer period, the archaeologist emphasizes with reference to the many animals killed. How long was hunted and split into Langmannersdorf, but cannot be estimated because of the finds.
The youngest Big Mammoth Bone Foundation in Central Europe
With its age of 25,000 years, Langmannersdorf is the latest site with large quantities of giant bones in Central Europe. The current finds for scientific processing are currently in a branch of the Öai in Krems. They are supposed to come to the Vienna Natural History Museum, a part in the Prenchling Heimat Museum.
Source: Krone
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