Domesticated Mammoth: Just for fun

What if some way, some how, Neolithic humans had thought about capturing and training Mammoth before their extinction? Perhaps leading to the development of a widespread nomadic culture where Mammoth are used for both transportation to from one location to the next as well as beastsof burden? What situation what allow modern humans to be able to refrain from hunting them for meat in order to ensure the long-term survival of the species in this manner?
 
I created a world for my Stardut Sequence that has tamed mammoths for war elephants. However, I don't think its even possible to domesticate an elephant like a horse or dog. Tame, sure, they do that in southern Asia, but fully domesticate..
 
Well truthfully, I did doubt that it was possible to hunt Mammoths and simultaneously employ them for heavy labour. Still, I was taken with the idea of a sort of Bronze Age nomadic society that retained a herd of tamed Mammoths that would carry their tents and equipment while they moved to new pastures.
 
well, fellas, WI the crytopozoological sightings of woolly Mammoths in Siberia were real, & Mammoths actually DID survive on a much larger basis, then you could get tribes of Siberians who domesticate em for use as beasts of burden & battle steeds (a la the cavemen depicted in DINOBOT ISLAND lol)- hmmm, WI there'd been enough Mammoths surviving in Siberia that Imperial Russian or Soviet forces could've co-opted these Siberian Mammoth-riders to use as shocktroops on the Eastern front ?
 
well, fellas, WI the crytopozoological sightings of woolly Mammoths in Siberia were real, & Mammoths actually DID survive on a much larger basis, then you could get tribes of Siberians who domesticate em for use as beasts of burden & battle steeds (a la the cavemen depicted in DINOBOT ISLAND lol)- hmmm, WI there'd been enough Mammoths surviving in Siberia that Imperial Russian or Soviet forces could've co-opted these Siberian Mammoth-riders to use as shocktroops on the Eastern front ?


Most likely what would happen is that the Mammoth would be hunted to extinction for their tusks and perhaps their hides too, the same way Russian trappers nearly wiped out the sea otter.
 
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