A mammoth bone circle recently unearthed at the Kostenki 11
site in Russia has
been identified as one of the oldest and largest in the world. It is a
concentric ring of mammoth bones laid in a continuous circle 41 feet in
diameter. A preliminary inventory of the bones has counted 51 mandibles and 64
crania of mammoth and a smattering of reindeer, horse, bear, wolf and fox
bones. Radiocarbon analysis of samples from across the site date it to
25,063-24,490 years before the present, making it the oldest mammoth bone
circle ever discovered on the Russian Plain.
Mammoth bone circle is a new one to me.
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