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Mammoth bone house.
Ukraine, Russia
c 16,000 - 10,000 B.C.E.
Photo© LaCour Slide Library
Stokstad- Art History Set
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- well preserved
- solid, weatherproof shelter in treeless grasslands
- settlements up to 10 houses
- bones of wooly mammoth (extinct elephant)
- best preserved site MEZHIRICH, Ukraine
- c 16,000 - 10,000 BCE
- from 13’ - 26’ diameter
- largest 24’ x 33’
skulls, shoulder blades
pelvis bones, tusks
curving tusks made excellent roof supports
- arched door openings
bone framework
- probably covered with animal hides and turf
- Inside =15 small hearths
- still with ashes & charred bones
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