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To: BGHater
"The growth rings and possible prehistoric human butcher marks contain a wealth of data on the ancient climate and peoples of Siberia that could shed light on whether climate change and over-hunting felled the mammoths."

What 'felled" the mammoths, Rhinos, fox, tigers etc. was rapid freezing and burial under hundreds of feet of ice and snow. As some samples show (complete bodies with still edible meat in some cases) they were crushed by this ice while they were grazing on tropical vegetation. They were killed by a catastrophic event. Since no human bodies have ever been found in the regions these animals are found, it's not very likely that there were any human settlements in the area at the time.

It's likely that human settlement came much later as the ice receded.

30 posted on 03/26/2008 11:44:58 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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frozen mammoths
31 posted on 03/26/2008 11:51:04 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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