### q1 complex kitchens date to 30k years ago > archaeologists have just uncovered a 29,000 B.C. well-equipped kitchen where roasted gigantic mammoth was one of the last meals served. > > Svoboda, a professor at the University of Brno and director of its Institute of Archaeology, and colleagues recently excavated Pavlov VI, where they found the remains of a female [mammoth](http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/09/neanderthal-mammoth.html) and one [mammoth](http://animals.howstuffworks.com/extinct-animals/mammoth-info.htm) calf near a 4-foot-wide roasting pit. Arctic fox, wolverine, bear and hare remains were also found, along with a few horse and reindeer bones. > > The meats were cooked luau-style underground. Svoboda said, "We found the heating stones still within the pit and around." > > Boiling pits existed near the middle roaster. He thinks "the whole situation — central roasting pit and the circle of boiling pits — was sheltered by a teepee or yurt-like structure." This is probably the thing [[Does the Full-Size Oven Have a Place in the Modern Home]] got wrong. - [[Mammoths Roasted in Prehistoric Barbecue Pit by NBC News#q1 complex kitchens date to 30k years ago|View in Vault]]