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Andreas Pernerstorfer came across the bones in March while renovating his cellar in the village of Gobelsburg, northwest of Vienna, CNN reported. At first, he mistook a bone for wood.
Researchers uncovered around 300 bones from at least three individual mammoths. A comparable discovery of bones and human artifacts was made in a neighboring cellar 150 years ago, according to a statement released by the Austrian Archaeological Institute , part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter nowGet the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox.
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