Ice Age families lived in houses made of mammoth bones
During the height of the last Ice Age, Ukrainian families constructed elaborate, insulated mansions using the skeletal remains of nearly 100 mammoths to survive the sub-zero tundra.
In the village of Mezhirich, the ground was too frozen for timber and too barren for caves, so Paleolithic builders turned to the only abundant resource available: the bones of giants. A single house required the remains of approximately 95 mammoths, with massive jawbones interlocking to form a circular foundation and tusks arched overhead to support a roof of animal hides. These bone-walled homes were so heavy and stable that they could withstand the howling winds of a -20°C winter.
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