> Humans are very crafty at using the whole animal so the processing of a carcass tends to leave traces all over a settlement wherever bits get used (bone tools

> Humans are very crafty at using the whole animal so the processing of a carcass tends to leave traces all over a settlement wherever bits get used (bone tools and whatnot). Yeah, about that... > Ice Age hunter-gatherers, foraging the bone-chilling, unforgiving steppes of what today is Russia, somehow completed a remarkable construction project: a 40-foot-wide, circular structure made from the skulls, skeletons and tusks of more than 60 woolly mammoths. > Archaeologists have unearthed about 70 mammoth-bone structures across Eastern Europe. But this one is the oldest on the Russian plain thought to be made by modern humans. Most of the previously identified structures were small, leading researchers to conclude they were most likely used as winter dwellings on a nearly treeless landscape. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/science/mammoth-bones-circle.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/science/mammoth-bones-cir...