Nevljica is a river

River

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...

 in the Kamnik

Kamnik

Kamnik is the name of a municipality in Slovenia as well as the town that serves as its administrative, cultural, economic, and educational center. The municipality is in north central Slovenia. It encompasses a large part of the Kamnik Alps and the surrounding area...

 municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

, Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

. It comes out under Kozjak and flows through the Tuhinj Valley

Tuhinj Valley

The Tuhinj Valley is a valley in Slovenia linking the Celje Basin with the Ljubljana Basin in an east-west direction along the courses of the Nevljica and Motnišnica rivers....

. It also flows through the village of Nevlje

Nevlje

Nevlje is a settlement on the Nevljica River in the Municipality of Kamnik in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. In 1938 the skeleton of a mammoth was found in the vicinity during construction of a bridge over the river. The vacuum-impregnated skeleton has been on display at the National...

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Many bones of an ice age mammoth

Mammoth

A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus. These proboscideans are members of Elephantidae, the family of elephants and mammoths, and close relatives of modern elephants. They were often equipped with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair...

 were found by Nevljica river in this village in 1938. These bones, remains of a reindeer and one small Paleolithic tool made of stone were all found at this site and were dated to around 20,000 — 18,000 B.C.. A bridge, built on this spot was named Mammoth bridge (Slovene: Mamutov most). Old village people still remember the excavations that attracted even foreign researchers and scientists, and they tell this story to their grandchildren.