Mammoth Bones Reveal Secrets of Ice Age Hunters

Mammoth Bones Reveal Secrets of Ice Age Hunters

By Valérie Gillet Shortly before the peak of the last Ice Age, herds of woolly mammoths roamed across Central Europe, following seasonal routes through a vast, frigid landscape of grassland and tundra. Across the region, archaeologists have uncovered striking accumulations of mammoth bones, sometimes numbering in the thousands. These sites have puzzled researchers since the 19th century. Were these vast bone beds the result of hunting, natural d…