Reconstructions of Ukrainian shelters depict a low domical shape covered with animal skins and the tent is restrained by heaped mammoth bones. Later shelters are crude teepees reminiscent of those used by present day reindeer herders in Northern Asia.
- Mousterian domical shelter comprising a wood frame covered with skins (44,000 years old).
- Upperpaleolithic teepee-like shelter (13,000 years old).
- Tepee-like shelter, 12,000 years old. The skin cover was attached to the wood frame by reindeer antlers.
- Pushkari: Upper Paleolithic earth house: plan & reconstruction
These structures are supposed to have required 50 person-days to build (Pearson and Richards, p. 56).