Mammoth Bone Hut - Ice Age Dwelling Diorama Model

A dome-shaped dwelling built from mammoth bones, inspired by Ice Age sites on the plains of Ukraine and Russia, such as Mezhyrich, where huts roughly 15,000 years old were framed with hundreds of mammoth bones. At Mezhyrich the bases were ringed with mammoth jaws stacked in a zigzag pattern, and the frames were probably covered with hides. This model shows a smooth hide-covered dome with long bones laid over it, a zigzag ring of jaw-like bones around the foot, an arched entrance framed by a cur…

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