Fall Asleep as a Mammoth Hide Tanner on the Ice Age Steppe

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Fall asleep on the frozen grasslands of the Ice Age as you spend your days transforming enormous mammoth hides into the things your community needs to survive.

Tonight, you are a mammoth hide tanner, scraping away tissue with stone tools, stretching heavy hides beneath the open sky, working them beside smoky fires, and patiently softening them into warm clothing, sturdy shelter coverings, straps, cords, and other essentials. It is slow, demanding work, made slightly more complicated by the...