Bone study shows Ice Age hunters were picky about what mammoths they killed and ate

A new study shows that hunters during the ice age were specific about what woolly mammoths they hunted for food and clothing.The giants were a favourite target for these prehistoric people in Eurasia and North America, with a single animal providing a large amount of meat and fat. Its hide could also be used for clothing. Its bones and tusks could be shaped into tools, weapons and art. And the largest bones ⁠could be used as building material.New research shows that they were highly selective in the mammoths they picked to hunt. Using genetic data from bones at 11 sites in Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany and Russia, scientists have discovered that they mainly killed female mammoths.Some 70% of the mammoths whose bones were studied from these accumulation sites were females, wi