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Huge mammoth-bone hut could be a Stone Age larder

Prehistoric people collected more than 60 mammoth skulls to build a ring-shaped edifice in what is now Russia.
Close up of the mammoth structure.

Recently excavated mammoth bones are the remnants of a structure that Ice Age humans built on the Russian steppes. Credit: Alex Pryor

A 25,000-year-old structure made from the bones of woolly mammoths might have served as a giant food pantry for prehistoric humans.

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Nature 579, 474 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00712-2

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