microrobert
11-10-2012, 11:48 AM
A mammoth find in France provides evidence of a savage demise
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The first complete mammoth skeleton to be found in France for more than a century has been uncovered in a gravel pit on the banks of the Marne 30 miles north-east of Paris.
The find, first made in July but kept secret until this week, has yielded a second, even more exciting, discovery. Two tiny fragments of flint blade have been found embedded in the mammoth’s skull close to one of its tusks.
Archaeologists speculated, when they first found “Helmut le Mammouth” that he had come to a sticky end between 130,000 and 190,000 years ago. They concluded that the animal, maybe 9ft high and weighing up to five tonnes, had foundered on soft mud or quicksand.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/a-mammoth-find-in-france-provides-evidence-of-a-savage-demise-8298524.html
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The first complete mammoth skeleton to be found in France for more than a century has been uncovered in a gravel pit on the banks of the Marne 30 miles north-east of Paris.
The find, first made in July but kept secret until this week, has yielded a second, even more exciting, discovery. Two tiny fragments of flint blade have been found embedded in the mammoth’s skull close to one of its tusks.
Archaeologists speculated, when they first found “Helmut le Mammouth” that he had come to a sticky end between 130,000 and 190,000 years ago. They concluded that the animal, maybe 9ft high and weighing up to five tonnes, had foundered on soft mud or quicksand.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/a-mammoth-find-in-france-provides-evidence-of-a-savage-demise-8298524.html