Prehistoric structure of mammoth bones

Prehistoric structure of mammoth bones

Credit: Alex Pryor

Archaeologists have gingerly unearthed buried remains of mammoth bones used to make a circular structure in the Russian Plains around 25,000 years ago, during the peak of the last Ice Age.

The biggest and oldest of its kind discovered so far, its age and size – built from hundreds of bones from more than 60 mammoths – are not the only unique features of this find.

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