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Off comparing mammoth sizes with the other boys.
Actually it was worse - he was betting on the size of the next mammoth he would kill. This could have evolved into something innocuous, like Las Vegas (which was invented separately, later), but the idea of betting upon the future eventually became that bane of modern existence - the stock market - only loved by wide boys and Porsche salesmen...
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