CEMETERY OF MAMMOTHS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 14

CEMETERY OF MAMMOTHS

A PREHISTORIC “ VENUS.” PARIS, Oct. 4. Comte Begouen, head of the prehistoric section of the faculty of letters at. Toulouse, sends to the Matin a long account of a cemetery of mammoths discovered tit Vistonitze, in Czecho-Slovakia. When Dr. Absolon, professor of Prague University, announced that lie had made remark | able discoveries, Comte Gegouen wont to the scene, as other foreigners, especially had done. On the day plateau which dominates the valley of the Thuya Dr. Absolon discovered a prehistoric kitchen with heaps of bones, the majority belonging to Ihe mammoth, and piles -of tusks. .Carved bones were also found. This is supposed to have been Ihe chief village of the hunters who brought all their spoils to be cooked and eaten. Another notable discovery is what is described as the new “Venus of Willendorf, ” made by Professor Bayer, director of the Prehistoric Museum of Vienna. It is a statuette in ivory, less artistic than that found in 19(18, and it has suffered much from its sojourn in the ground. Comte Begouen thinks that this statuette from the point of view of grandeur will henceforth be at the head of all other similar pieces. The head has a mass of-hair, which falls down the lack. The new Venus will be placed in the Prehistoric Museum, Vienna.