Were extinct Pleistocene megafauna harnessed to build the largest Neolithic monuments?

[Ponietz]

8. One must conduct a thorough search

No other way.

To my knowledge, only one wolf/dog skull from 33,000 years ago has been found although dogs were domesticated in multiple places all over the world, were far more numerous, and didn’t go extinct.

Cave art tells me humans possessed the necessary intelligence and imagination. Paleolithic humans mastered animal husbandry. Their whole lives revolved around animals. Training a grizzly bear isn’t anything new. They used their techniques on many species. The Russian study of foxes shows they can be domesticated in just a few generations.

Is it outrageous to suggest our ancestors may have done the same with extinct species? The extinct ones may have been even MORE tractable. We don’t know. They may have been free-ranged. Again, we don’t know.