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In 1970, an expedition of Soviet scientists reached the Yakut river Boryolekh. And she discovered that hundreds of meters of the shore were littered with tusks and skulls sticking straight out of the sand. So they found the largest cemetery of ancient giants on the planet. Excavations here lasted almost 40 years, and the description of the bones will take decades. And there is one big secret hovering over this whole place. Why did so many animals die in one place? The Börelökh cemetery is located on the banks of the river of the same name, so she became the main suspect. Animals came to the banks or swampy oxbow lakes to feed on the lush (by tundra standards, of course) vegetation. But springs with warm water, which flooded the permafrost, made the soil unreliable. The ground could not support the weight of the mammoths, and they sank into the wet soil or fell from the crumbling banks into the river. But lighter animals passed here without any problems. But in 2024, a team of paleontologists from three institutes carried out 88 measurements using new techniques and modern equipment. The findings were unexpected: the peaks of activity at the camp correspond to the peaks of active burial of mammoths. This means that this cemetery is the work of human hands. For about 1000 years, a certain tribe of hunters came here to hunt mammoths. The meat and skins were cut off, and the remains were thrown into an oxbow lake located near the river bed. But not for the purpose of recycling. In warm and calm water, connective tissues quickly rotted, and bones with tusks could be removed without much effort. After which they were used for construction, creating weapons and carving bones. Just imagine, in 1000 years we have gone from steel swords and windmills to hypersonic missiles and fast neutron nuclear reactors. And our distant ancestors wandered around the same region for 1000 years and regularly returned to the same camp in order to obtain mammoth meat and bones. It is likely that humanity will never return to this level of stability. 🏀 Hit the hoop and get an NFT gift — https://t.me/BasketbolX_bot