Assume that Mamoths were as capable of human exploitation as Asian elephants how useful could they be to a human society either in work or in war?
Assume that Mamoths were as capable of human exploitation as Asian elephants how useful could they be to a human society either in work or in war?
It all depends on their temperament, Asian Elephants are quite docile and therefore easy to domesticate whereas African Elephants are more aggressive and have never been domesticated. I think genetically mammoths are closely related to Asian Elephants but that doesn't in itself mean they were suitable for domestication.
Your biggest problem is the time frame. Getting mammoths to survive in any place late enough that people nearby are taming or domesticating anything more than dogs is the really really tough part.
Actually, asian elephants arent domesticated, but rather tamed.
Yes the genetic difference is more than horse vs zebra, where the one is domesticatible and the other isnt, so wed have no guarantee that mamoths would be usable.
However, some variants of african elephants apparently WERE tameable, so positing for a tl that mammoths were, too is certainly plausible.
Your biggest problem is the time frame. Getting mammoths to survive in any place late enough that people nearby are taming or domesticating anything more than dogs is the really really tough part.
Your biggest problem is the time frame. Getting mammoths to survive in any place late enough that people nearby are taming or domesticating anything more than dogs is the really really tough part.