Overview

• The 1.2-metre mammoth tooth is among the few Ice Age finds in northern Baden-Württemberg and was unearthed at Lauda-Königshofen.
• TransnetBW and the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege estimate the specimen is at least 12,000 years old pending precise dating.
• Excavations also revealed Stone Age cooking sites and storage pits at the construction area.
• Suedlink aims to transport electricity across roughly 700 kilometres between northern and southern Germany.
• Project developers confirmed that earthworks will continue uninterrupted through December despite the archaeological discoveries.