Posted on 10/31/2021 5:48:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Correction: “Tasty Mammoths”… at least the indigenous peoples who hunted them to extinction thought so.
Read about ‘Vero Man’ who was dug up in Vero Beach, Fl. Besides the poor archaeology, it’s an interesting story.
Apparently there was some activity and larger mammals down here in FLA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_man
I’m clearly talking about African elephants and building the Great Pyramids in Egypt.
At least I though I was crystal clear.
How could I have made that more clear? Help me out here, please?
“I don’t see hunting pressure as a reason for their extinction.”
Humans get blamed for everything, because we are the only species capable of blame, self-loathing and hypocrisy. Thus, we are the only species plagued by deceit (Marxism).
The aurochs died out in the 17th c.
Giant deer, giant rats disappeared in Europe shortly after the end of the Ice Age. Some of those rats hung around into historical times.
There’s a Ice Age animal relic left in Europe, the European Bison - the Wisent. Quite a survival story considering the events that occurred in modern times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bison
I read in the book THE DEFEAT OF JOHN HAWKINS by Rayner Unwin about three of his men, David Ingram, Richard Browne, and Richard Twide, who traveled overland from Mexico to Nova Scotia in ONE YEAR, claimed to have seen elephants in the interior of what is now the US.
Unwin also states that some of the Mayan art has what looks like elephants in it.
I read elsewhere that early explorers found mammoth bones on the surface of the ground, in the Kentucky area.
Author Louis L'Amour has Jubal Sackett encounter a mammoth/mastodon in the eponymous novel, which is set during the time of Charles I. I read an interview where L'Amour was asked to justify the encounter. He related a story about a small group of English sailors who were marooned in southern Mexico during the reign of Elizabeth I. Under Spanish law they were not just foreign pirates, but heretics, and several of them decided they would not wait two or three years, hoping word would reach England, and a rescue expedition be sent.
So they set out walking for the nearest place they might plausibly meet up with other Englishmen. Nova Scotia.
L'Amour stated that number of years later at least one of them made it to Nova Scotia, contacted English fishermen catching and salting cod, and at last returned to England. In recounting his trek from Mexico to Nova Scotia, he described the animals he had seen, and heard of. One he had only heard of, which he was told was then quite rare, was clearly a mastodon/mammoth. L'Amour pointed out that this was more than 200 years before the woolly mammoth was known to science, so there was no possibility that the sailor was attempting to embellish his tale by describing a known, but extinct, animal.
It allowed lethal force to be applied from a distance of 50 to 60 feet. With fellow hunters and a pack of dogs to provide assistance, an unbeatable combination.
When giant sphinxes roamed free. Those were the days.
African elephants, like cape buffalo, are just too damned mean to be tamed.
Indian elephants, tho, are oddly OK with the idea.
"...I wouldn’t want to be the poor sod who had to harness an African elephant!"
Interestingly enough, by sea, India isn’t all that far from Egypt...
Golden cymbals flying on ocarina sound...
“The last ones died off after the internal combustion engine was invented
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What? You must be making some sort of joke.”
No joke dude.
You aren’t aware of their role in the Civil War?
Cmon man.
Grant used them to carry supplies.
The North may not have won without their efforts.
Lincoln commended this effort in the same speech he praised the inventor of the internet.
You aren’t aware of their role in the Civil War? Grant used them to carry supplies.
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No I wasn’t, but I did see that G.Washington used them to terrify the Red Coats at the Battle of Trenton. There are many monuments around the Princeton Battlefield testifying to the bravery of the Woollies.
Pigmy mammoths?
Is that like Jumbo Shrimp?
Where do u learn all this?? Is there a youtube perhaps?
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