Ancient Siberians may have rarely hunted mammoths
Study suggests Stone Age folk sporadically killed the beasts, primarily for ivory
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BEACH BONEYARD Excavated mammoth bones from Siberia’s Yana archaeological site suggest that people hunted mammoths mainly for ivory, which they used to make tools.
Stanislav Remezov