The engraving, approximately 13,000 years old, is 3 inches long from the top of the head to the tip of the tail, and 1.75 inches tall from the top of the head to the bottom of the right foreleg. Credit: Chip Clark/Smithsonian
Posted on 06/21/2011 11:16:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
The engraving, approximately 13,000 years old, is 3 inches long from the top of the head to the tip of the tail, and 1.75 inches tall from the top of the head to the bottom of the right foreleg. Credit: Chip Clark/Smithsonian
GGG Ping!...............
i know art was in its “infancy” and all that, but c’mon... it doesn’t even look like a wooly mammoth at all...
sheesh...
teeman
Mastodon, most likely................
Hah! I was just about to post that the basic outline of the mammoth looks a heck of a lot more realistic than most of the cave art I’ve seen.
Freegards
Badge,
Why did I immediately think of Jimmy Durante when I read the word “proboscidean?”
Very interesting find!
Little known is that The Order Of Animals With Trunks (Proboscideans) was the Carthaginian group upon which the Knights Templar was based. Or so I’ve heard.
I have no idea....................
The detail looks too good for that old of piece.
It’s an engraving of a COLUMBIAN. See: http://www.tarpits.org/education/guide/flora/mammoth.html
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.
Google image “Frazetta Mammoth”.
Freegards
You mean we had illegals here 13,000 years ago?????.................
You mean we had illegals here 13,000 years ago?????.................
Looks more like a Cthulu monster than a mammoth.
13,000 PLUS ~ one bunch of illegals up on Oregon are known only by a copralite they left behind ~ as usual ~ in an otherwise beautiful cave!
ALL illegals are known by the coprolite they leave behind.........only fresher.............
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