VINKOVCI: MAMMOTH BONES DISCOVERED IN CLAY PIT

VINKOVCI, Sept 2 (Hina) - Workers of a brick factory from Vinkovci, eastern Croatia, discovered mammoth bones in a local clay pit last weekend. #L# The bones were found 20 metres deep in the ground, archaeologist Ivana Iskra Janosic from the town museum said, adding the animal the bones belonged to was neither a baby nor a full-grown mammoth. This is the fourth time mammoth bones have been discovered on this location. The remains of a full-grown mammoth and a baby mammoth were found here in 1995 and last year partial remains of another mammoth were discovered, dating back to the pleistocene ice age, which ended 60,000 years ago, when these animals started dying out. Once they are recovered from the ground, the bones will be sent to the Zagreb Museum of Natural Science for conservation. (hina) rml