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Mysterious 25,000 Year Old Building Made of 60 Mammoth's Bones
Smithsonian Magazine ^ | March 2020 | Brian Handwerk

Posted on 03/19/2020 2:58:06 PM PDT by wildbill

jaw-dropping example of Ice Age architecture has been unearthed on Russia’s forest steppe: a huge, circular structure built with the bones of at least 60 woolly mammoths. But exactly why hunter-gatherers enduring the frigid realities of life 25,000 years ago would construct the 40-foot diameter building is a fascinating question.

“Clearly a lot of time and effort went into building this structure so it was obviously important to the people that made it for some reason,” says Alexander Pryor, an archaeologist at the University of Exeter (U.K.). He is the lead author of a new study published this week in the journal Antiquity describing the find at Kostenki, a place where many important Paleolithic sites lie clustered around the Don River.

(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: building; godsgravesglyphs; mammoth; mcmammoth
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To: wildbill

Clearly a lot of time and effort went into building this structure so it was obviously important to the people that made it for some reason,”

maybe to stay warm?


21 posted on 03/19/2020 4:12:55 PM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: wildbill

Did they find any toilet paper?


22 posted on 03/19/2020 4:22:27 PM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
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To: Pearls Before Swine

It was one helluva BBQ - Mammoth Ribs, Sauce, Fries, Insects, and Emeril doing the cooking.


23 posted on 03/19/2020 4:35:45 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: blam

#17. I see my watch. I dropped it there during the Ice Age.


24 posted on 03/19/2020 4:36:25 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: centurion316

Hey, Oog.

Let’s build this really weird looking thing out of mammoth bones.

I’ll bet it will really freak somebody out in 25000 years or so.


25 posted on 03/19/2020 4:59:29 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: wildbill

It was part of the Bedrock bowling alley. Mr Slate had the hard surfaces contract.


26 posted on 03/19/2020 5:08:12 PM PDT by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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To: lewislynn

And way easier than moving around a live mammoth.


27 posted on 03/19/2020 5:09:01 PM PDT by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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To: lewislynn

Moving a dead mammoth was easier than killing one with pointed sticks I bet. Moving was in pieces so it was easier.


28 posted on 03/19/2020 5:11:20 PM PDT by JeanLM (Obama proves melanin is just enough to win elections)
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To: Texas resident

My thought as well-the article says they found charcoal, and there were trees there-mammoth bones for a frame + conifer branches-pine, spruce, etc-would make a pretty cozy wikiup-at least as good as the ones they teach you to make when you go to those primitive skills classes...


29 posted on 03/19/2020 5:18:51 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys-you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Apparently the archaeologists and paleontologists have been finding similar structures made of mammoth bones for years-—but this is the largest by far.


30 posted on 03/19/2020 7:23:09 PM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: wildbill; SunkenCiv
***This is a neolithic McMammoth site which began the famous logo of the Golden Arches***

Mezhirich / Mezhyrich / Mejiritch /Mejiriche/Межиріч - Mammoth Camp
(Ukraine) Mammoth bones used to recreate a building of the ice ages. Photo: Sasha Desyaterik
Golden arches

31 posted on 03/19/2020 7:59:47 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: JeanLM
Moving a dead mammoth was easier than killing one with pointed sticks I bet. Moving was in pieces so it was easier.
LOL! So "the pieces" were just laying on the ground?
32 posted on 03/19/2020 9:23:27 PM PDT by lewislynn (STOP SUPPORTING CHINA AND ANTI-AMERICAN GLOBALISTS! DO IT NOW!)
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To: 2banana

Today, not 25k years ago..................


33 posted on 03/20/2020 6:20:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
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To: SunkenCiv

Perhaps the mammoths were domesticated and this was a barn.................


34 posted on 03/20/2020 6:20:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
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To: Bob Ireland

Love the pics and especially the second one. I see ritual mummies at the order counter and a table. GO MCMammoth forever.


35 posted on 03/20/2020 11:14:35 AM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: Bob Ireland

Ok, a berry smoothie, fried cattails and a hunk of mammoth. That’ll be one shell, 25 smooth river rock pebbles.. Enjoy your day at McMammoth


36 posted on 03/20/2020 11:22:41 AM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: lewislynn

They ate the Mammoth where it was like a wolf pack. When it was eaten by them and scavengers, they carried the bones to build the yurt. Probably used the skin to cover it.

That’s what I would have done.


37 posted on 03/20/2020 12:22:21 PM PDT by JeanLM (Obama proves melanin is just enough to win elections)
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To: wildbill; SunkenCiv
***Enjoy your day at McMammoth***

Back in my day we were building those mammoth dwelling communities all over the tundra... Mammoth burgers were all the rage back then. The mammoth was the symbol of the Renovacaine Party.

38 posted on 03/20/2020 12:54:15 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland
I had herd that.

39 posted on 03/20/2020 1:20:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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