Posted on 07/14/2019 6:27:48 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
When some people hear mammoth, money comes to mind. Local tour companies offer trips to the mammoth graveyards across the regions Arctic frontier. Prospectors for mammoth partsespecially the tusks, known as ice ivoryhave raced to collect remains.
Around 100 tons of mammoth tusks are legally mined in Yakutia each year, while illegal mining is estimated at twice that much, according to a report by TASS
If ever a mammoth surfaces somewhere in the world, it will actually have Yakut roots, said Mr. Fyodorov, proudly underscoring that his republic is mammoth central, the hereditary home of so many of these beasts.
To prevent ivory laundering, governments are expected to discuss the unusual step of listing the woolly mammoth as an endangered species, though it is long extinct.
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Not a job for the faint of heart if you hate the cold.......
Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows.
Why he left his home in the South to roam ‘round the Pole, God only knows.
He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell;
Though he’d often say in his homely way that “he’d sooner live in hell.”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee
“a forest was cleared in preparation for a road “
This must be the famous road to hell?
From a sub-link.
The Batagaika crater is a thermokarst depression in the East Siberian taiga, in the Sakha Republic in Russia. The crater began to form after a forest was cleared in preparation for a road that was to be built in the region. The area is one of the coldest regions in the world and is layered in permafrost.
Both wore weird headdresses. :)
Sunken Civ, please give these folks the likely answer provided by Firestone et al, and their book. I think you also posted some recent articles on the wider recognition their asteroid/comet crash theory has provided.
There was a statement that all the mammoths were the same as the ones in Siberia. I wonder if DNA testing has been done comparing similar remains in Alaska and Canada. I remember reports that some smaller remnants remained in north eastern Canada islands as recently as 8000 year ago, rather than the circa 13,000 year old age of the mass freeze/burial in several northern areas.
l-seven
did they mean L7, like squares ville?
Could you provide a few clues?
And maybe make it multiple guess?
Cause, I’m lost???
(Nothing new or unusual)
The lyrics say l-seven.
L7 is as close as one can get to a square on a typewriter.
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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