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When building houses you build with what you can find. If you buy an old house in an area without much trees, like an island, expect it to be built with a littl

by z3t4 7y ago

When building houses you build with what you can find. If you buy an old house in an area without much trees, like an island, expect it to be built with a little bit of everything.

munk-a 7y ago
That was one specific interesting point in the article though - the other structures were built out of everything, bones from mammoths, foxes and other small game. This particular structure was entirely built out of mammoth bone and is insanely large.
- samstave 7y ago
  Given the fact that a single mammoth could feed many for a long time, I would suspect that a building made from 60 mammoths was either a mass death, or a mass ritual killing - it certainly wasnt subsistence killing of the mammoths for food from which the bones would come from...
  - kadoban 7y ago
    Couldn't it have been built out of bones from a long period of subsistence hunting and killing?
    - projektfu 7y ago
      Indeed, some things had been built over thousands of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Eagle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Eagle
  - masswerk 7y ago
    Maybe an early example of warehousing as resources and huntable animals became scarce: hunt an entire herd as it comes by on a seasonal route and preserve the meat for the year to come. Maybe this was a food processing and storage facility. If so, you would build up from a rather modest start until you scale up to such an extent, by which you probably had accumulated a fair amount of building material already.
- baybal2 7y ago
  It's much more likely people just reused bones emerging during permafrost thaws, and not tried to hunt mammoths
dghughes 7y ago
I live on an island it's a province of Canada but still and island (150,000 people). There is no hard rock here it's all red/pink sandstone. Many buildings built here especially in the early 1900s and before used sandstone. Banks and the large churches were built using hard stone like granite imported from Nova Scotia or New Brunswick.

by z3t4 7y ago

When building houses you build with what you can find. If you buy an old house in an area without much trees, like an island, expect it to be built with a little bit of everything.

munk-a 7y ago

That was one specific interesting point in the article though - the other structures were built out of everything, bones from mammoths, foxes and other small game. This particular structure was entirely built out of mammoth bone and is insanely large.

samstave 7y ago
Given the fact that a single mammoth could feed many for a long time, I would suspect that a building made from 60 mammoths was either a mass death, or a mass ritual killing - it certainly wasnt subsistence killing of the mammoths for food from which the bones would come from...
- kadoban 7y ago
  Couldn't it have been built out of bones from a long period of subsistence hunting and killing?
  - projektfu 7y ago
    Indeed, some things had been built over thousands of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Eagle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Eagle
- masswerk 7y ago
  Maybe an early example of warehousing as resources and huntable animals became scarce: hunt an entire herd as it comes by on a seasonal route and preserve the meat for the year to come. Maybe this was a food processing and storage facility. If so, you would build up from a rather modest start until you scale up to such an extent, by which you probably had accumulated a fair amount of building material already.
baybal2 7y ago
It's much more likely people just reused bones emerging during permafrost thaws, and not tried to hunt mammoths

dghughes 7y ago

I live on an island it's a province of Canada but still and island (150,000 people). There is no hard rock here it's all red/pink sandstone. Many buildings built here especially in the early 1900s and before used sandstone. Banks and the large churches were built using hard stone like granite imported from Nova Scotia or New Brunswick.