Power Line Construction In Germany Turns Up A 7,000-Year-Old Pit Filled With Beaver Remains

All That's Interesting | 05.05.2026 02:45
During preventative archaeology ahead of the construction of the SuedOstLink high-voltage electricity transmission line near Alsleben, Germany, archaeologists found a pit full of bones. These remains, easily identifiable by their orange teeth, belonged to beavers — and archaeologists determined that they’d been slaughtered a whopping 7,000 years ago.