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Trade in mammoth ivory, helped by global thaw, flourishes in Russia
IHT ^ | 25 Mar 2008 | Andrew E. Kramer

Posted on 03/26/2008 5:00:22 PM PDT by BGHater

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To: Rebelbase; SunkenCiv
That's really something with the guitar.

I've been bragging for years over the 7,000 year old cypress wood I have. (I'll shut up now, lol)

Also, I saw the movie 10,000 BC last night...I guess it was reasonable, barely.

21 posted on 03/26/2008 6:53:01 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: Max in Utah

Cain’t argue with that.

OTOH, during the last century in Sudan there were tribes that hunted elephants on horseback. They used broadswords to hamstring the elephants. This sounds to me like perhaps the most extreme sport ever invented.


22 posted on 03/26/2008 6:53:03 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: wildbill; blam

Not sure (W.B.) how to detect fake mammoth ivory. Blam, it’s neat of course, but it depends on how the instrument plays and sounds. :’)


23 posted on 03/26/2008 10:59:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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24 posted on 03/26/2008 11:00:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


25 posted on 03/26/2008 11:02:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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To: BGHater; SunkenCiv; blam
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...

Earth In Upheaval. Immanuel Velikovsky.

26 posted on 03/26/2008 11:13:47 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (a fair dinkum aussie)
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To: Rebelbase

> Stuart Spector Designs has just completed a bass, the NS-30K BC that will utilize what is believed to be the oldest wood ever used in the construction of a musical instrument...

It would be interesting to see what this artisan could do with Swamp Kauri, a beautiful wood that is extracted from New Zealand swamps. It is often 100,000 year or more old, and when dried can be worked exactly like modern Kauri.

Because it is full of a very fine resin — it is like amber — kauri wood does not rot.


27 posted on 03/26/2008 11:18:43 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Fred Nerks

Lots of 19th c billiard balls as well.


28 posted on 03/26/2008 11:30:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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To: BGHater
"His trade has been bolstered recently by global warming,

BS. These mammoth tusks have been "emerging" for the last 200 years, long before 'global warming' and the blamed "industrial era" ever became popular terms.

The fact is, these 'woolly mammoths, rhino's and other animals which were flash frozen about 4000 years ago once lived in a tropical paradise which is proven by the lush tropical vegetation that is emerging along with these frozen mammoths and found in their stomachs.

The simple facts one can conclude from these specimens is that not only is "global warming" a farce, the frozen north isn't supposed to be frozen, it's supposed to be lush and green. These weren't arctic animals which survived in the cold, (elephants cannot survive in an arctic climate) woolly mammoths are not not fur bearing, they are simply hairy elephants whose hair has no insulating value whatsoever. The amount of vegitation and fresh water needed for survival is simply not available in an arctic climate, and their trunks, like regular hairless elephants, are very sensitive to sub zero temps. exposure to those temps would kill them.

The discovery of these frozen in time mammoths, which is nothing new, many complete specimens were discovered in the early 19th century. They show that these animals were suddenly and rapidly buried inder snow and ice, so rapid that many are discovered with lush tropical vegitation still in they mouths. The ice age was very sudden.

What is happening now is this last ice age is still receeding, a perfectly natural and unstoppable event. That is, unless the same thing which triggered that ice age occurs again, in which case all of North America will once again be covered with a giant ice sheet.

29 posted on 03/26/2008 11:37:32 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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"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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To: Nathan Zachary

I agree.

It’s like saying that the rocks I keep turning up year after year after year in my garden are emerging due to global warming.


32 posted on 03/27/2008 12:58:44 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: BGHater
Gary Haynes, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Nevada at Reno, said he could not help but cringe at seeing the tusks destroyed. 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.

The start offering better $$$$ for the data. Socialist scientists make me sick.

33 posted on 03/27/2008 2:44:44 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (su - | echo "All your " | chown -740 us ./base | kill -9 | cd / | rm -r | echo "belong to us")
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To: BGHater

I have mammoth or mastedon ivory.
want some?

It is good for jewelry or knife handles


34 posted on 03/27/2008 2:47:34 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
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To: BGHater
If all theses mammoths are being found why was such a big deal made about some scientist trying to uncover one on a documentary on Discovery or History Channel or some such channel not long ago? Because of bad weather they failed. They came across like it was really a rare find they were trying to uncover in the ice. It might of been a fossil if I remember right. Why didn't they just get one of the many that were being exposed because of melt?
35 posted on 03/27/2008 7:55:52 PM PDT by Bellflower (A Brand New Day Is Coming!)
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To: Bellflower

Sorting mammoth tusks at an ivory auction yard in Siberia about 1920. Ivory mining has been continuous since Roman days and surely represents many thousands of buried mammoths.

36 posted on 03/27/2008 8:30:12 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (a fair dinkum aussie)
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To: Fred Nerks

MOSCOW — The frozen carcass of a baby woolly mammoth has been unearthed in a remote northern Siberian region, a discovery scientists said Wednesday could help in climate change studies.

The 4-foot gray-and-brown carcass, believed to be between 40,000 and 10,000 years old, was discovered in May by a reindeer herder in the subarctic Yamal-Nenets region.

It has its trunk and eyes virtually intact and even some fur remaining, said Alexei Tikhonov, deputy director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Zoological Institute.

37 posted on 03/27/2008 8:35:24 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (a fair dinkum aussie)
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To: Bellflower

Mammoth fossils.

38 posted on 03/27/2008 9:02:31 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (a fair dinkum aussie)
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