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Across the riverbanks of Russia and Ukraine, archaeologists have found enormous piles of mammoth bones. What are they?

Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:57 Mammoths
2:50 Thanks to AG1
4:23 Mammoth Structures
8:03 Houses?
10:53 Not Ritual AGAIN!
12:36 Odd construction
20:15 Bear Ritual

Sources:
Sablin, Mikhail, et al. “The Epigravettian Site of Yudinovo, Russia: Mammoth bone structures as ritualised middens.” Environmental Archaeology, 19 Apr. 2023, pp. 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023....

“Paleolythic dwellings of Anosovka-Mezin type: Construction features and the issue of interpretation.” Rossiiskaia Arkheologiia, no. 4, Nov. 2019, https://doi.org/10.31857/s08696063000....

Khlopachev, Gennady A. “Les Cabanes de Type « anosovka-mézine » du site de Yudinovo : éléments de construction, architecture, Classification.” L’Anthropologie, vol. 125, no. 4, Sept. 2021, p. 102923, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2021....

Iakovleva, Lioudmila. “The architecture of mammoth bone circular dwellings of the Upper Palaeolithic settlements in Central and Eastern Europe and their socio-symbolic meanings.” Quaternary International, vol. 359–360, Mar. 2015, pp. 324–334, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014....

Pryor, Alexander J.E., et al. “The chronology and function of a new circular mammoth-bone structure at Kostenki 11.” Antiquity, vol. 94, no. 374, 17 Mar. 2020, pp. 323–341, https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.7.

Ethno-archaeology among Evenkian forest hunters. Preliminary results and a different approach to reality! Mesolithic on the Move Papers presented at the Sixth International
Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Stockholm 2000, Ole Gren and Oleg Kuznetsov

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