Farmers from Michigan accidently dug up a skeleton in the closet of a mammoth in their soybean field of battle last Monday . By Thursday , 15 fossilist had alternate onto the scene and happen upon the mammoth was likely to have been hunt , butchered into prehistorical steaks and salt away by mankind somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago .
Farmer James Bristle and his friend were digging in his field of honor to make way for a natural gas pipeline , when on the spur of the moment they struck something . talk toAnn Arbor , Bristle said : “ We thought it was a crumpled fence military post . ” On further inspection , it deform out to be a 2 foot ( 60 centimeter ) costa os .
After alert theUniversity of Michiganto their discovery , a team head by the institution ’s Professor Dan Fisher made their way to the website and began dig . A singular uncovering , Fisher toldDetroit Free Pressthat it was " one of the more complete sets of woolly gigantic pearl ever to be institute in the country . " Although Michigan is no stranger to come up these kind of things ; the remains of around300 mastodon and 30 mammothhave been come up in the midwestern state to day of the month .
Fisher also added that the beast was improbable to be a woolly mammoth , but really a crossbreed between a woolly gigantic and Columbian mammoth – a species even larger that its hirsute cousin-german , open of growing up to 4 meters ( 13 feet ) .
So far , the team has found the mammoth ’s skull , pelvis , both tusks , both shoulder blades and numerous vertebra and rib . However , the ivory that are lose are almost as interesting as the ones found . It is miss its hind leg and foot , suggesting that the mammoth had been partially eaten by humans . Furthermore , three basketball - sized rock-and-roll were found around the carcass , which experts think could have possibly been used as an anchor to weigh the animal down in a pond , perhaps for late preservation in a kind of Flintstone - esque refrigerator .
Among the ivory , three basketball sizing rocks have been bump surrounding the mammoth , which it is thought were used to anchor the carcase in the pool . The find gives a great insight into when humankind first arrived in the Americas and how they behaved around this clip , peculiarly their culinary expertise .
