The 24,000-Year-Old Boy Buried Beneath A Stone Slab With 120 Beads And Mammoth-Ivory Jewelry — And The DNA Test That Revealed A Hidden Source Of Native American Ancestry
It was a resource, a raw material, a presence in the landscape so enormous and so constant that it structured daily life in multiple ways.
Mammoth meat was food.
Mammoth bones and tusks were building material — the heavy bones of the skeleton were used as structural elements in shelters, as weights for holding down hides, as raw material for tool-making.
Mammoth ivory was the most prestigious and most worked material in the Upper Paleolithic toolkit — the ivory of choice for figurines, ornaments, beads, and the kinds of objects found in the Mal’ta burial.
The people who hunted mammoths were not the clumsy, club-wielding primitives of popular imagination.
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