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To: Palter

The giraffe isn’t very big and was probably paleoshopped by the artist. So was the elephant/mammoth.
Of more significance, perhaps, is that a single handler has it and another animal in one hand. If that’s supposed to be a bear, I’d say it came from the same region as the elephoth critter; and it wouldn’t be Malta.
Also, it could have been an infant, and the tusks drawn in to signify that its breed is the source of the tusks the handler is carrying. Seems unlikely they’d have brought a full-size to the party (”Get that thing outta here!”) in any case. What for? It’s the ivory that’s special, unless they were into breeding experiments with their own elephants. Which perhaps they were...but even then, you take a smaller specimen. Tusks drawn in for advertising purposes.


18 posted on 01/22/2011 4:53:45 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Correcting self...at http://rockartblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/tomb-of-rekhmire-dwarf-mammoth-in.html there’s a bigger close shot of the critter, appears he is held by a different human, so may not represent the same region as the (supposed) bear.
Best guess then, India and paleo-shopped stature.


19 posted on 01/22/2011 5:09:53 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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