That many were swept out to sea by the flooded rivers of Siberia is certain, for some of the low islands off the coast are said to be formed of sand, ice, and bones of the mammoth, and thence, for hundreds of years, have come the tusks which are sold... Handbook Series - Page 190by American Museum of Natural History - 1913Full view - About this book
| Frederic Augustus Lucas - Paleontology - 1913 - 334 pages
...western United States. So far as man is concerned, s * « ^ I == *ig I s I r c £ I 4 ^ c < I X bi the mammoth might still be living in these localities,...absence of such evidence is no proof that they did not. J That any live mammoth has for centuries been seen on the Alaskan tundras is utterly improbable, and... | |
| Frederic Augustus Lucas - Paleontology - 1922 - 236 pages
...certain, for not only are the remains of the mammoth and man's flint weapons found together, but in few instances some primeval Landseer graved on slate,...how the animal escaped because his bow missed fire. Later the artists of the CroMagnon race depicted him time and again, singly and in herds, on the walls... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1923 - 976 pages
...all about it as soon as he could walk. But there are no such stories. Dr. Lucas genially continues : We may feel assured that if early man did not conquer...inaccessible rock, and then went home to tell his wife and neighbours how the animal escaped because his bow missed fire. Had this implication that prehistoric... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1901 - 920 pages
...to-day their tusks are articles of commerce, and fossil ivory has its price current as well as wheat. That many were swept out to sea by the flooded rivers...neighbors how the animal escaped because his bow missed tire. That man and mammoth lived together in North America is uncertain; so far there is no evidence... | |
| English periodicals - 1923 - 1004 pages
...all about it as soon as he could walk. But there are no such stories. Dr. Lucas genially continues : We may feel assured that if early man did not conquer...inaccessible rock, and then went home to tell his wife and neighbours how the animal escaped because his bow missed fire. Had this implication that prehistoric... | |
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