Southern Kuzbass Power Plant FOUND mammoth tusk
In 2007, during excavation works on a clay quarry belonging to the Society `UK` TPP were found bones of unknown animals. Excavation work was suspended. Arriving paleontologists explained that the remains of the mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros.
In Siberia, the animals lived 10-15 thousand years ago. According to scientists, in ancient times on the site of a clay pit was a river backwater, where drifting over the dead animals.
The scientists took samples of finds, and the station was stored mammoth tusk weighing 10 kg and over a meter in length. Recently, he was transferred to the museum Kaltan.
Director of the institution, Catherine Dombrowski noted that the tusk will join the list of other valuable pieces, the transmitting station in previous years. They relate mainly to the history of the city-forming enterprise. `We are grateful to Southern Kuzbass Power Plant for the gift, - she said. - I think our visitors, especially children, will appreciate it #39;.
It is possible that on a clay quarry can be detected and other equally interesting finds.
