Fossil tusks of the mammoth - an extinct elephant - were found in northern Siberia and brought southward to markets at a very early time, possibly in the days of Pliny in the first century of the present era. The Chinese excelled in working delicate designs in the ivory, much of which they obtained from the north...
High in the north above Siberia, six hundred miles inside the Polar Circle, in the Arctic Ocean lie the Liakhov Islands. Liakhov was a hunter who, in the days of Catherine II, ventured to these islands and brought back the report that they abounded in mammoths' bones.
"Such was the enormous quantity of mammoths' remains that it seemed...that the island was actually composed of the bones and tusks of elephants, cemented together by icy sand."
The New Siberian Islands, discovered in 1805 and 1806, as well as the islands of Stolbovoi and Belkov to the west, present the same picture. "The soil of these desolate islands is absolutely packed full of the bones of elephants and rhinoceroses in astonishing numbers. These island were full of mammoth bones..."
quotes from "The Ivory Islands in the Arctic Ocean"
Journal of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain, XII (1910)
from Earth In Upheaval. by Immanuel Velikovsky.
(The polar islands are frozen for ten months of the year. What did the mammoth and the rhino's eat before they decided to lie down and die, I wonder?)
The polar islands are frozen for ten months of the year. What did the mammoth and the rhino's eat before they decided to lie down and die, I wonder?Buttercups. ;')