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Judi Lynn

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Fri Dec 8, 2017, 11:05 PM Dec 2017

14-INCH 'SPEAR' MADE OF TUSK FOUND INSIDE WOOLLY MAMMOTH SKELETON IN SIBERIA


BY DAMIEN SHARKOV ON 12/8/17 AT 11:19 AM

Scientists in eastern Russia have found what they believe is a primitive weapon, lodged inside the skeleton fragments of a woolly mammoth, according to state news agency RIA Novosti.

The 14-inch curved object appears to be made from mammoth tusk and resembles the sharp, polished end of a spear—and the fact that it was found among the ribs of the animal’s remains suggested it might have been used as a weapon, according to researchers for the Northeastern Federal University in Russia.

The university’s Museum of the Mammoth in the Siberian city of Yakutsk will now study the item found in the Sakha region’s northeast.

Discussing the likelihood of the object being a spear-like tool, the chief science associate at the university’s mammoth museum, Semyon Grigoriev, told RIA, “The necessary tests have not been conducted yet. In particular the age of the artifact remains to be determined and whether it was a spear used as the murder weapon for the mammoth whose bones it was found in.”

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http://www.newsweek.com/14-inch-tusk-spear-found-siberia-inside-woolly-mammoth-skeleton-742377
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14-INCH 'SPEAR' MADE OF TUSK FOUND INSIDE WOOLLY MAMMOTH SKELETON IN SIBERIA (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2017 OP
Destruction is in our DNA it seems Beakybird Dec 2017 #1
Vegan much? tirebiter Dec 2017 #2
They should check between the mammoth's toes for fragments of a paleolithic hunter! petronius Dec 2017 #3

petronius

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3. They should check between the mammoth's toes for fragments of a paleolithic hunter!
Sat Dec 9, 2017, 01:45 PM
Dec 2017



Interesting they referred to it as a "murder weapon" - wonder if that's a translation thing, or maybe the mammoth researchers have become very strongly identified with their subjects...
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