Renovating the wine cellar, shocked by 300 giant monster bones

The terrible bone pit under the floor of a wine cellar in Austria belongs to beasts that lived about 40,000 years ago and are now extinct.

According to Ancient Origins, Mr. Andreas Pernerstorfer, a winemaker in the Austrian town of Gobelsburg, renovated his wine cellar and discovered countless oversized beast bones during the digging process.

He promptly reported this to Austria's Federal Heritage Office. After that, the excavation and research were transferred to the Institute of Austrian Archeology under the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW).

Scientists are taking part of the beast's bones from the sediment - (Photo: OeAW).

Since mid-May, archaeologists from OeAW have been meticulously excavating layers of bones at the site.

Preliminary analysis results show that these monster bones are actually mammoth bones .

A total of about 300 bones were collected, belonging to at least three individuals and including different mammoth species.

Some other bones still lie half in the sediment - (Photo: OeAW)

Researchers Thomas Einwögerer and Hannah Parow-Souchon say that the stone and charcoal artifacts included in the bone-bearing sediment show that the remains are indeed ancient, ranging from 30,000 to 40,000 AD. last year.

'Such a dense layer of mammoth bones is very rare. This is the first time we have been able to investigate a case like this in Austria using modern methods,' the researchers said.

These bones also include parts rarely seen in other mammoth remains, such as tongue bones.

This discovery raises interesting questions about the interactions between Stone Age humans and these giant beasts.

The collection of many fragmented bones belonging to many mammoth species shows that this was the gathering and processing point for the "trophy" of Stone Age humans, who hunted this beast.

Coexisting with Stone Age humans, mammoths served as an important resource, with their bones and tusks used to make tools, works of art, and various artifacts, At the same time, it is a source of food.

A study published in 2023 showed that not only us - Homo sapiens - but also ancient Neanderthals also hunted mammoths 125,000 years ago.