A male who was renovating his wine cellar in Austria has made an remarkable discovery. It wasn’t a vintage purple or white – but the remains of prehistoric mammoths.

The uncover has been called an “archaeological sensation” by researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the OeAW.

The winemaker, Andreas Pernerstorfer, came throughout a amount of large bones, buried deep in his wine cellar in the village of Gobelsburg, in the district of Krems, west of Vienna.

He noted his come across to the authorities, who discovered them as the bones of at the very least three Stone Age mammoths.

Mr Pernerstorfer told the Austrian Broadcasting Company, ORF, that he was renovating his wine cellar when he built the discovery.

“I imagined it was just a piece of wooden remaining by my grandfather. But then I dug it out a bit and then I remembered that in the previous my grandfather stated he had discovered enamel. And then I instantly considered it was a mammoth,” he stated.

Researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute have been excavating the bones since the center of May perhaps.

Archaeologists Thomas Einwögerer and Hannah Parow-Souchon say that stone artefacts and charcoal discovered at the web page suggest that the bones are concerning 30,000 and 40,000 yrs aged.

The Institute says the previous time there was a comparable discovery was 150 many years back, also in the district of Krems.

“During the excavation there, the cellars in problem had been fully cleared out. Other comparable sites in Austria and neighbouring nations had been typically excavated at minimum 100 a long time in the past and have largely been missing to present day analysis,” it claimed in a assertion.

Ms Parow-Souchon said it was the initially time they’d been capable to look into such a come across in Austria “using contemporary methods”.

Researchers say the discovery raises issues about how Stone Age individuals hunted mammoths.

“We know that humans hunted mammoths, but we even now know very very little about how they did it,” Ms Parow-Souchon explained.

They believe that the mammoths could have died on the spot wherever the bones have been found – chased there by humans who may well have set a trap for them.

At the time they are excavated, the bones will be taken to the Vienna Museum of Normal Background.