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Related: About this forum14-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 spearand the fact that it was found among the ribs of the animals remains suggested it might have been used as a weapon, according to researchers for the Northeastern Federal University in Russia.
The universitys Museum of the Mammoth in the Siberian city of Yakutsk will now study the item found in the Sakha regions northeast.
Discussing the likelihood of the object being a spear-like tool, the chief science associate at the universitys 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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14-INCH 'SPEAR' MADE OF TUSK FOUND INSIDE WOOLLY MAMMOTH SKELETON IN SIBERIA (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Dec 2017
OP
They should check between the mammoth's toes for fragments of a paleolithic hunter!
petronius
Dec 2017
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Beakybird
(3,391 posts)1. Destruction is in our DNA it seems
Alas
tirebiter
(2,587 posts)2. Vegan much?
People had to eat and it's not like the woolly mammoth was endangered at the time.
petronius
(26,662 posts)3. They should check between the mammoth's toes for fragments of a paleolithic hunter!
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...