A Mammoth Find Near Mexico City

team of scientists has discovered the largest collection to date of mammoth skeletons in one place, just outside Mexico City. The researchers have counted more than 200 individual mammoths to date—and believe there are still more to discover.

In 2018, the government announced the development of a new Mexico City airport at the Santa Lucía Air Force Base, north of the city. People have found mammoth remains in the northern part of the city and the wider region since the 1970s. So, Pedro Francisco Sánchez Nava, the national coordinator of archaeology of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, anticipated he and his colleagues would find more of these Pleistocene-era fauna in the area.

“We never assumed that there was going to be the quantity that we are looking at now,” says Sánchez. Just a few months ago, the team had identified 60 specimens. In September, the researchers confirmed counting more than 200 individuals. This find beats previous record-breaking collections of mammoths in California, South Dakota, and Siberia.

The remains date between 20,000 and 10,000 years in age. Sánchez remarks that these bones are not the product of a single event but the accumulation of some 10,000 years of mammoth presence in the region.

Not a whole comet, but fragments of a broken up comet (Shoemaker-Levy 9). Some fragments were a mile in diameter but most were air-bursters like the one over Russia a few years back (video on web, search). However, the order of magnitude was more akin to the Tunguska strike.

This was a process that happened over 100 years as the Earth passed through a dense part of the Taurids (every Fall). There so many that the heart of the bursts ignited the vegetation continent-wide (there is a black mat geological layer several feet thick composed of the ash). This is a roughly a tear drop shape with the bulbous end in Canada/Great lakes region stretching over the the UK and down to North Africa and the pointy tail in South America.

Some of the big fragments did hit the ice cap throwing huge ice clumps into the upper atmosphere, then hitting the ground shattered and rained down as ice-like razor blades slicing and dicing all living things; this process created the Carolina Basins and the Nebraska Rainwater Basin geological features. These ice shards helped extinguish the raging firestorms consuming vegetation, animals, and people.

None of this stuff should be seen as small or a one time incident - these were like a nuclear bombardment from space it was so devastating and traumatic for the survivors. The world literally changed and we forgot all of this, relegating it to myth and fable. The survivors embarked on a world-wide sky watch program using stone to tell the events coming from the heavens (Stone Henge, stone monuments, mounds, wooden posts all used to determine what might be in store and give warning).

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