reply to post by coredrill
Hi Coredrill, an interesting post!
There is an ancient factory near Mukulov, Czech republic, called Dolni Vestonice. It is dated at 26000 years old.
The buildings and functions of this factory are interesting in itself, please see the link!
What you would find interesting about Dolni Vestonice is that numerous Mammoth bones have been found around this site.
It was first though that they were the product of hunts by the Paleolithic villiagers. Scholars no believe that the villiage was actually built next
to a Mammoth Grave Yard.
Like modern elephants, when older mammoths suffered from worn teeth they migrated to marshy land where there was softer vegetation. Eventully too weak
to leave the swamp ground, they would die there.
Their bones made great building materials, but more importantly, once the villiagers got their fires hot enough, the mammoth bones made excellent fuel
thanks to their calorific value being of a value higher thn coke.
Within one building there is a horse-shoe shaped kiln, which would been the necessity for fires of this intensity.
So although Mammoth stakes does sound pretty appetising, they probably weren't eating them here.
Thats not to say that earlier peoples didn't get a taste though!  
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