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A mammoth-bone structure discovered in Russia dating to 24-25,000 BP is declared as “the oldest ever built” by Homo sapiens. The Upper Paleolithic, or Late Stone Age, in Eastern Europe loosely defines the period between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, and latterly hunter-gatherer groups lived in circular dwellings constructed with huge mammoth bones representing the earliest examples of architecture. But now, archaeologist Alexander Pryor and his team of researchers from the University of Exeter in England have published a new study claiming one such prehistoric construction in Russia is “the oldest ever”, and it’s a whopper. Presumed to have been covered with animal skins these circular mammoth-bone structures are thought to have sheltered ancient hunters during long and hard full-glacial