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Much early art included depictions of mammoths on the walls of caves.
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* Mammoths figure significantly into primitive art. Early European cave-dwellers realistically carved and painted mammoths on the walls of their homes, providing a vivid portrait of these awesome creatures and the way they interacted with humans. For example, these illustrations tell us that mammoths were hunted by man and that they had a hump-like reserve of fat on their upper backs.
From these rich records, scientists have been able to extrapolate a remarkably complete picture of the mammoth’s appearance and behavior.
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