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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 r
by 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 agoCouldn't it have been built out of bones from a long period of subsistence hunting and killing?
- projektfu 7y agoIndeed, 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 agoMaybe 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.