Posted on 06/21/2011 11:16:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
There are three Columbians standing side by side. For an example of what the artist was trying to execute take a look at: http://allotherpersons.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/robert_shaw_54th_memorial.jpg?w=400&h=300
Columbian Mammoth
Mammuthus columbi
An average Columbian mammoth stood over 12 feet tall at the shoulder and weighed over 10,000 pounds. The mammoth's primary diet consisted of grasses, which was quite different from the diets of their modern relatives, the Indian and African elephants. Yet, like these elephants, the Columbian mammoth had a set of four teeth that was replaced by new sets as the older teeth eventually became worn. This type of tooth replacement continued to produce six sets over the course of about 60 years and then, like all elephants, the mammoth would starve as the final set wore out.
See my post #23.
Thanks muawiyah!...........
Saw that Columbian profile and knew it instantly.
“Why did I immediately think of Jimmy Durante when I read the word ‘proboscidean?’”
He was a schnozzocidean. Completely different order.
unidentified animal cracker
And they reached America on the Grand Trunk Railroad.
“The guy doing the engraving was probably Clovis ~ which means he had European ancestors who lived in the Western European refugia. They had a thriving art culture.”
Such a scenario is not necessary. Such a scenario posits that different groups of humans living separately and far apart were incapable of acquiring the very same skills and talents. There is no reason to believe that to be the case.
Early scrimshaw.. Clearly an elephant type critter.
It’s well done too.
I have absolutely no talent for drawing, yet somebody 13,000 years ago was able to draw a mammoth...........
It's an elephant............
looks like the GOP was doing direct-mail fundraising even back then...
Great minds think alike.
I’m a bit lacking in that talent as well.
So what happend to all the artists after this? This looks like a well drawn mastidon. Later American Indian art looks more like boxes with sticks for legs and antlers.
So what happend to all the artists after this? This looks like a well drawn mastidon. Later American Indian art looks more like boxes with sticks for legs and antlers.
The individual who engraved this piece may well have been an immigrant ~ from Europe!
Before him there really weren't all that many folks wandering around North America.
Now, for what happened to later artists ~ they got killed when what is believed to have been a giant comet hit the residual ice sheet in Canada about 11,000 BC. That brought on the Younger Dryas, and that in turn brought back a truly evil, nasty, brutal climate to the Northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere for thenext 1500 years ~ to about 9500 BC ~ the Clovis culture simply disappeared. Later cultures were far different.
Just because the bone is old, doesn't mean the engraving is old.
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