Dig site close up_Rowe (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Dig site close up_Rowe

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Close up of the bone pile during excavation. This random mix of ribs, broken cranial bones, a molar, bone fragments, and stone cobbles is a refuse pile from the butchered mammoths was preserved beneath the adult mammoth’s face and tusks.

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Timothy Rowe / The University of Texas at Austin.

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