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Killing the last mammoth

Posted by epgrondine at 16:13, 21 Dec 2009

http://scienceblogs.com/laelaps/2009/04/...

Or for the real story go here:

http://forum.palanth.com/index.php/topic...

The First Peoples in the south remembered cometary impact

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Posted by Indrid Cold on 26 Dec 2009 at about 18:46.

Truly enjoyed this post! Very Corliss-esque, intrigued me on multiple levels....

Also...
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Posted by Indrid Cold on 27 Dec 2009 at about 01:12.

Sorry if my thread-killing abilities affect this post! It is a newly discovered talent/curse that I have discovered I must possess, as EVERY thread I have ever commented on at this site has then faded into obscurity, with no more readers, no more posters...

Can people smell my breath online or something???

The Curse of Cold! :-P
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Posted by red pill junkie on 27 Dec 2009 at about 20:26.

Can people smell my breath online or something???

LOL Nah, I think it's got to do more with the fact that people spend less time in front of their monitors during the holidays, amigo :)

I liked the post as well. I do think that Inuits being able to know how mammoths looked like might be explained with them finding well-preserved remains in the permafrost, coupled with oral tradition passed on from countless generations.

Then again, maybe the last mammoth was still living in Siberia by the time we were building the pyraimds —although *not exactly* as Roland Emmerich tells it in the movie '10,000 BC' ;)

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Posted by earthling on 29 Dec 2009 at about 00:24.

Mammoths thaw out of the ice every now and then, when local
conditions change. They weren't just in the ice, there were some in Los Angeles. Actually there still are in the tar pits.

So it is entirely possible that stories of them survived from relatively recent times.

Other explanations are possible for why they were easily recognized. Many people today would recognize a Wookie. Many
people would recognize an Elvis, never having seen one in person.

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Posted by epgrondine on 31 Dec 2009 at about 18:10.

It appears that no one read the First People's accounts given at the other link I posted.

Mayor ascribes all of these to fossil myths, even though it is abundantly clear now that some of them were not, and that the mechanisms of oral transmission worked pretty well for some 12,500 years.

The last mammoth appear to have survived on Wrangel Island, though why the locals did not hunt and eat them is unknown now.

If you read his "Notes on the State of Virginia", Thomas Jefferson hoped that some of them were still alive.

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