Site plan of the third mammoth-bone structure (2015); blue = crania/skulls and yellow = fires.Credit: Rey-Iglesia et al. 2024
Posted on 02/07/2025 10:39:39 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Circular mammoth bone structures have been recovered across western Russia and the Ukraine. Most have been dated to around ~26,000–14,000 cal BP (calibrated years before present) and are usually found along the Desna/Dnpr river systems.
"The circular mammoth bone structures are from the height of the last Ice Age, a period of intense cold, and are widely considered to have been dwellings for shelter during long, full glacial winter seasons or possibly year-round," explains Dr. Lorenzen, one of the study's researchers...
However, precisely what they looked like is yet unknown...
Previous radiocarbon dates indicate the site was likely built around 24,000–25,000 ya. Making Kostenki 11-Ia one of the oldest circular mammoth-bone structures in the eastern European Plain.
All of Kostenki's mammoth bones belong to one of the most well-known mammoth species, the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). Due to their rich fossil record and the preservation of several specimens in permafrost, they're among the well-studied Eurasian mammoth species...
The results indicate that the majority of mammoths (57% were female, while males made up the other 43%. The over-representation of females, compared to other mammoth bone assemblages, and the inclusion of juvenile remains led the researchers to believe that Ice Age humans were primarily targeting mammoth herds or at least scavenging from herd bone-beds rather than trapping solitary male individuals...
Finally, one of the more unexpected finds came from the radiocarbon dates... Of the nine radiocarbon dates taken, two were several hundred years older. These dates came from a female and a male mammoth and were dated to around 25,662–24,802 and 25,798–25,140 cal BP, respectively.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Site plan of the third mammoth-bone structure (2015); blue = crania/skulls and yellow = fires.Credit: Rey-Iglesia et al. 2024
Early πchyderms.
Heh...
My wife and I often use a ”bone-pile bowl” with dinner (her expression).
This looks like a BIG one.
The century+ older bones appear interesting. Perhaps the site was in use for a long time, or is that the life-span of the Mammoths?
Similar to cattle caught in a W Texas blizzard; bunched together on a south fence trying to get out of the wind.
They trap themselves together, get covered in snow and suffocating to death.
Maximizing floor space with the materials on hand.
Could have been some ‘found’ materials, or scavenged from an earlier structure.
A mammoth prehistoric complex made of Bone would have been most likely constructed by Trump’s caveman ancestor Ugg Trump.
:^)
Good one!
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