Reconstruction of one of the four mammoth bone huts at Mezhirich with tusks supporting the roof. From a display at Dolní Věstonice Museum.pic.twitter.com/OClssFQd4M
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The mammoth bone huts at Mezhirich near Kiev are ~15,000 years old. The base of each dwelling is a circle of interlocking mammoth jaw bones.pic.twitter.com/NfUVIkLlL9
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A mammoth hut camp in Eastern Europe during the last glacial period
#IceAgeArt by Giovanni Casellipic.twitter.com/XvA5GPgV5I
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The first of four mammoths huts at Mezhirich was discovered in 1965 when a farmer began digging in his cellar to increase its size.
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The number of bones incorporated into a single 5 m-wide hut structure must have belonged to at least 95 woolly mammoth carcasses
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Learn more about the origin of these remarkable dwellings from this short filmhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TNP8ZjZ_cRU …
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The mammoth bones in each hut weighed up to 20 tonnes!
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Wow - thanks for the huge interest in this post. Find out more here http://www.donsmaps.com/mammothcamp.html?forcedownload=true …
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The base of each dwelling is a circle of interlocking mammoth jaw bones
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Were mammoths hunted to extinction?
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Yes, more or less?
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Based on this, it certainly looks possible.
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We have pretty good evidence that most of the large, terrestrial animals that went extinct in that period were due to people
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Hard to definitely say for any given specific species, but chances are yes - it was partly or entirely us
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This doesn’t surprise me.
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More to do with changing post glacial climate, actually..
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We showed in a study a few years back that humans were more important than climate in most of these extinctions - as did some other scientists in an independent paper too! Our paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.01566/abstract … (if you cant access it I'm happy to direct you to an accessible copy)
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thats amazing!
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Would you risk an estimate to how long they'd live in a hut? Would it be a seasonal dwelling on hunging grounds?
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In the Argentinian Pampas where stone is very scarce, they used to line wells with cow bones to keep the sides from falling & purify water
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