18,000 years ago, ice age humans built dwellings out of mammoth bones in Ukraine

Photo from above the mammoth remains. They look like large sharp gray rocks coming out of fine sand. .

Around 18,000 years ago, ice age people in what is now Ukraine likely weathered the extremely harsh climate by building parts of their shelters out of mammoth bones, a new study finds.

The mammoth dwellings show how communities thrived in extreme environments, turning the remnants of giant animals into protective architecture," the archaeologists wrote in a statement.