Replica European mammoth bone house / dwelling. The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA.

This replica European mammoth bone house is an example of dwellings best known from the plains of Ukraine, Poland, and the Czech Republic between 12,000 and 19,000 years ago. It's built of 121 mammoth bone replicas, 8 bison hides, poles, and rawhide and leather straps. A grant from the Discovery Channel made this exhibit possible, displayed within the Mammoth Site, a fascinating museum and active paleontological site in the town of Hot Springs, in the Black Hills, South Dakota, USA. Most mammoths went extinct about 10,000 years ago amid a warming climate and widespread human hunting. The Mammoth Site is the largest collection of in-situ mammoth remains in the world.

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Contained in galleries: SD: The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, 2021 Aug 1-Sep 12: CA Sierras, CO, NE, SD

This replica European mammoth bone house is an example of dwellings best known from the plains of Ukraine, Poland, and the Czech Republic between 12,000 and 19,000 years ago. It's built of 121 mammoth bone replicas, 8 bison hides, poles, and rawhide and leather straps. A grant from the Discovery Channel made this exhibit possible, displayed within the Mammoth Site, a fascinating museum and active paleontological site in the town of Hot Springs, in the Black Hills, South Dakota, USA. Most mammoths went extinct about 10,000 years ago amid a warming climate and widespread human hunting. The Mammoth Site is the largest collection of in-situ mammoth remains in the world.