article_snippet.sent: The remains were uncovered by archaeologists from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (Vetmeduni), exploring the construction site for a shopping center in the city of Tulln in 2006-2007.
article_snippet.sent: But the researchers said it would be impossible to say how it got into their city.
article_snippet.sent: Apparently, the citizens took it inside the town, where the citizens probably kept and displayed it as an 'exotic animal,'" the citizens said.
article_snippet.sent: It seems quite conceivable that being not familiar with behavioral and feeding habits, the scarcity of food in wartimes, people did not keep it for long.
article_snippet.sent: The Austrians' unfamiliarity with such a beast may have led to the skeleton's preservation.
article_snippet.sent: The dismemberment of the carcasses certainly is a reason for the skeleton's preservation finds in general and is indicated by bones with butchering marks in particular.
article_snippet.sent: The backfill of the cellar yielded masses of domestic refuse like animal bones and ceramics (e.g. plates, pans and flagons), pieces of a tiled stove and enameled pipe bowls which date the filling in the early modern period," The backfill of the cellar yielded masses of domestic refuse like animal bones and ceramics (e.g. plates, pans and flagons), pieces of a tiled stove and enameled pipe bowls which date the filling in the early modern period said.
article_snippet.sent: A coin dating from 1643-1715 and a medicine bottle from a chemist's operating from 1628-1665 helped the team date the site.
article_snippet.sent: Flooding and plagues affected Tulln in the 17th century and many buildings were demolished, The backfill of the cellar yielded masses of domestic refuse like animal bones and ceramics (e.g. plates, pans and flagons), pieces of a tiled stove and enameled pipe bowls which date the filling in the early modern period said.
article_snippet.sent: Two building plots got new owners at the end of the century around the 1690, certainly the time when the cellar was backfilled, offering enough space to bury such a big cadaver in the center of the town," Two building plots explains.
article_snippet.sent: The skeleton remained there for more than 300 years to raise questions in the future.