Posted on 01/14/2016 8:42:33 PM PST by BenLurkin
The carcass was remarkably well preserved, but something was clearly wrong. A rounded hole through the interior jugal. Deep incisions along the ribs. Dents in the left scapula. A broken mandible.
This 45,000 year-old mammoth's life ended violently at the hands of hunters. That wouldn't be surprising-it's well known that Pleistocene humans were expert mammoth killers=but for the location. It was excavated from a permafrost embankment at Yenisei bay, a remote spot in central Siberia where a massive river empties into the Arctic Ocean.
That makes this brutalized mammoth the oldest evidence for human expansion into the high Arctic by a wide margin. Its discovery, published today in Science, might push back the timeline for when humans entered the northernmost reaches of the world-including the first entries into North America.
"We [now] know that the eastern Siberia up to its Arctic limits was populated starting at roughly 50,000 years ago," said Vladimir Pitulko, an archaeologist at the Russian Academy of Sciences and lead author on the study. "This makes our window into the remote part [of the planet] open wider."
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
How did it get perma-frosted? That's interesting, in itself.
Did Guam tip over?
Many academics will tell you that when archaeological discoveries are made that don’t fit the contemporary narrative they are either ignored, sh*tcanned or ridiculed. The Chinese have been quite good at standing up to the ridicule and positing some interesting discoveries that question our understanding of the past.
If there was gun control this peaceful creature would be alive today. /s
I read most of Velikovsky's stuff in my misspent youth... :)
Any interest?
Immanuel Velikovsky explains this in an intriguing and controversial book, Worlds in Collision. Here is a Readers Digest version via Wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_in_Collision
Mammoths must have tasted real good because you got a lot of convincing to do to get me to jab it with a sharpened stick.
Out ancestors had huge cojones hunting mammoths.
Actually, I think that whole discussion is in his “Earth In Upheaval”. :’)
Definitely, bfl!
Think I still have the paperback.
EARTH IN UPHEAVAL
In this epochal book, Immanuel Velikovsky, one of the great scientists of modern times, puts the complete histories of our Earth and of humanity on a new basis. He presents the results of his 10-year-long interdisciplinary research in an easily understandable, even entertaining manner.
Inspite - or even because - of the disgraceful hostility, provoked by his theories, this book keeps being of ardent topicality, which in the light of recent scientific research is even growing.
Earth in Upheaval - a very exactly investigated and easily understandable book - contains material that completely revolutionizes our view of the history of the earth.
For all those who have ever wondered about the evolution of the earth, the formation of mountains and oceans, the origin of coal or fossils, the question of the ice ages and the history of animal and plant species, Earth in Upheaval is a MUST-READ!
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/earth-in-upheaval-immanuel-velikovsky/1019336178
Walt always liked Mammoth. Made Joel upset as I recall.
Look there! Spotting a mammoth.
And all you have are 20 of you with sharp sticks.
What to do, what to do...
I first read Velikovsky’s works in the 1970’s. It had an impact on me.
Maybe a mammoth, injured by hunters, escaped into the river and was washed downstream a long way from where the people attacked it.
I don’t have access to the text (it used to be available for d/l), but perhaps *someone* does...
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