I guess Siberia had less open water around it to provide the precipitation needed?
Posted on 10/25/2006 10:35:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Toba was the last super volcano event.
That we have discovered so far.
I guess Siberia had less open water around it to provide the precipitation needed?
That part of Alaska that is green with ice to the north and to the south, that's where I am. It's the same now as it was then, except no wooly mammoths, and no sabertooth tigers. Their carcasses are frozen in the muck in the valleys, all ground up and mangled like there was a muddy flood that froze instantly. Velikovsky described this accurately in one of his upheaval books.
I was in the group of kids that got the call about the bones found in Waco. We were part of a group called the Junior Naturalist Club at Baylor University and I was actually washing points from the Horn Rock Shelter when the head Archaeologistat the Strecker Museum came in and asked us if we wanted to go check out some bones instead of wash points. I found the first tusk, which measured 14 feet, give or take. The site is a collection of three seperate sites dating back to somewhere around 200,000 years ago. The youngest, which she stumbled across had male mammoths with their tusks under the females pushing them up the bank, while the females had their heads pushing up the baby mammoths. It is a site that is very different than just finding a skull or two here or there. At that time the creekbed was cut deeper and you could see bones sticking out of the side of the bank at a much lower level. At some point there was a flood(recently) that caused the creek there to fill in with silt to the point of covering up the bones. When I was much older, I went there with an Anthropology class from Baylor and noticed that no one had ever dug the deeper bones out. I made point of that to the the head excavator, Ralph, that they were there fifteen years before; and since then the people in charge of the site have released the findings of another deeper mammoth site. The site itself is covered by a circus tent and is in the process of having an enclosure built over it to become a National Monument. The US Government gave Baylor 600k (I think that's right) to go along with Baylor's pledge of 400k to organize the site into something that kids from all over the state can come observe (complete with a parking lot for lots of busses. An interesting side note is that about a year ago they dug piers for something on the property a little ways away from the site and drilled off into ivory and bones. This site is much larger than what is currently the common knowledge about it. The 28 mamoths found in the recent kill site are in a very small area. If they continue out in all directions, there could very easily be hundreds of pristine skeletons frozen in multiple stacked layers over several hundred thousand years. There isn't anywhere on earth that could rival that. The only site with more mammoths than they currently have found is in Russia and it's not like the one in Waco.
There are cut banks here in Alaska along some rivers where some carcasses are starting to emerge from the frozen silt. There are musk ox, standing, frozen standing, and covered in silt so the land level is now above their backs and heads. We might surmise a series of cold summers allowed them to remain uneaten and undecomposed. Musk ox are sill in existence although hunted nearly to extinction last century. Silt builds up fairly quickly due to glacial action in the mountains; it is picked up by the wind and deposited as grit everywhere.
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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