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RE: virus: Ice age infants found buried under mammoth bones
« on: 2005-09-26 00:35:40 » |
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[Blunderov] News flash for fossil heads.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1467792.htm
Ice age infants found buried under mammoth bones
The 27,000-year-old skeletons of two ice age infants have been found near
Krems in northern Austria, the first discovery of its kind in Europe,
according to Austrian press reports.
The perfectly preserved skeletons measuring 40 centimetres had been
protected by a mammoth's shoulder-blade bone, under which they had been
buried on a sheltered hillside on the banks of the Danube River.
The grave, discovered 5.5 metres below ground, also contained a necklace of
31 pearls made from mammoth ivory and was located next to an area inhabited
by ancient "homo sapiens fossilis", newspapers reported.
"It is the first discovery of a child's grave dating from this period,"
excavation manager Christine Neugebauer-Maresch told the newspaper Kurier.
"They may have been twins but we have not yet been able to establish that,"
she told Die Presse.
The age of the skeletons will be analysed by the Institute of Natural
Sciences in Vienna, which will also determine the cause of death.
'Homo sapiens fossilis' came out of Asia during the ice age as Neanderthal
Man was dying out, and mastered stone and wood but did not discover metal.
-AFP
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