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Still, it makes me speculate that perhaps the heavy lifting was done by elephants?

It’s not like elephants were unknown on the African continent...

Although I wouldn’t want to be the poor sod who had to harness an African elephant!

[PIF]

Still, it makes me speculate that perhaps the heavy lifting was done by elephants? It’s not like elephants were unknown on the African continent...

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Evidence in the US is that elephants were targets of opportunity for food, not beasts of burden.

(Living) African Bush is 3.2 - 3.9M. African Forest is 2.4 - 3.0M.

(Extinct) The Columbia Mammoth at 3.5 - 4.0M was bigger than the Woolly variety at 2.7 - 3.4M. Both went extinct around the same time in the US.

[bobbo666]

African elephants, like cape buffalo, are just too damned mean to be tamed.
Indian elephants, tho, are oddly OK with the idea.