November 8, 2012

Roman dig yields mammoth skeleton

The Associated Press

PARIS - Archaeologists in France have unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of a mammoth.

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Archeologists work along a riverbank about 30 miles east of Paris, where a near complete skeleton of a mammoth was discovered by accident at an ancient Roman site.

The Associated Press

The bones -- thought to belong to a hairy, long-tusked creature that roamed the earth between 200,000 and 50,000 years ago -- were discovered by accident during the excavation of an ancient Roman site 30 miles east of Paris.

It may be only the third remains of a long-haired woolly mammoth discovered in France in the last 150 years. Such discoveries are more common in Siberia.

Archaeologists will try to establish how the mammoth died. It may have drowned in the River Marne or been hunted by Neanderthal man.

It was a French scientist, Georges Cuvier, who first identified the woolly mammoth in 1796.

 

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