Go to https://drinkag1.com/stefanmilo to get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3+K2 and 5 AG1 travel packs with your first purchase. Thanks to AG1 for sponsoring today's video! 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/10.1080/14614103.2023.2182977. “Paleolythic dwellings of Anosovka-Mezin type: Construction features and the issue of interpretation.” Rossiiskaia Arkheologiia, no. 4, Nov. 2019, https://doi.org/10.31857/s086960630007212-2. 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.2021.102923. 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.2014.08.050. 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 Huge thanks to my generous patrons https://www.patreon.com/stefanmilo Watch my videos Ad free only on Nebula https://go.nebula.tv/stefanmilo Local Elevator by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Electrodoodle by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/