Are all mammoths extinct?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

On the issue of mammoths, I, like most people, have been in the illusion for a long time. I took my word for it that they became extinct in the last ice age. I knew that their remains were found in the permafrost, and thought about the possibilities of cloning this amazing ancient animal. But recently I happened to re-read the story Turgenev "Khor and Kalinych" from the cycle "Notes of a Hunter" … There is an interesting phrase there:

In order to write this phrase, Turgenev needed to know several things, rather strange for the middle of the 19th century in our current understanding. He should have known that there was such a beast as a mammoth, and he should have known. what his skin was. He should have known about the availability of this skin. Indeed, judging by the text, the fact that an ordinary man living in the middle of a swamp wears mammoth leather boots was not something out of the ordinary for Turgenev. However, this thing is still shown as somewhat unusual, uncommon.

It should be recalled that your notes Turgenev wrote almost like documentaries, without fiction. That's why they are notes. He simply conveyed his impressions of meeting interesting people. And it happened in the Oryol province, and not at all in Yakutia, where mammoth cemeteries are found. There is an opinion that Turgenev expressed himself allegorically, referring to the thickness and quality of the boot. But why not "elephant skin" then? Elephants were well known in the 19th century. But mammoths …

According to the official version, which we have to debunk, the awareness of them was then negligible. One of the first "academic" mammoth skeletons with preserved remains of soft tissues was found by a hunter O. Shumakov in the delta of the Lena River, on the Bykovsky Peninsula in 1799. And this was a great rarity for science. In 1806 the botanist of the Academy M. N. Adams organized the excavation of the skeleton, and brought it to the capital. The exhibit was collected and exhibited at the Kunstkamera, and later transferred to the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences. Only these bones could be seen by Turgenev. Half a century will pass before the discovery of the Berezovsky mammoth and the creation of the first stuffed animal (1900). How did he know, what kind of skin does a mammoth have, and even identified it offhand?

So, whatever one may say, the phrase dropped by Turgenev is puzzling. I'm not even talking about the fact that the skin of the "ever-frozen" mammoth is not at all suitable for furrier business. She loses her qualities.

Did you know that Turgenev is not the only writer of the 19th century who let slip about the "extinct beast"? None other than Jack London, in his story "A fragment of the Tertiary era", conveyed the story of a hunter who met a living mammoth in the vastness of northern Canada. In gratitude for the treat, the narrator presented the author with his mukluks (moccasins), sewn from the skin of an unprecedented trophy. At the end of the story, Jack London writes:

However, in the Tobolsk Museum of Local Lore 19th century harnessmade from mammoth skin. Come on, why lick the skin when there is enough information about living mammoths. A lot of scattered evidence was collected by the candidate of technical sciences Anatoly Kartashov in his work "Siberian mammoths - is there any hope of seeing them alive." He waited for a reaction to his texts from the scientific world and in general, but he seemed to be ignored. Let's get acquainted with these facts. Let's start from the early times:

I myself have not read these "Historical Notes"; such a serious researcher as M. G. Bykova, H. Nepomnyashy is rewriting her, and I am both of them.

As for the 2nd century BC, one can hardly trust this dating, since Chinese history was artificially extended into the past to infinity. However, in our case, this does not change the essence at all."Historical Notes" of Sim Qian is clearly not 13 thousand years old, that is, it was certainly after the Ice Age. And here is the evidence 16th century:

It turns out that mammoths walked with us in the 16th century. Almost everyone knew about them, since even the Austrian ambassador received information. And again the 16th century, this time the legend:

And right after that, we smoothly move on to the testimony. 19th century:

Of course, for 300 years, mammoths have not disappeared anywhere. And now the end of the 19th century. They were seen again:

Already known to us, Gorodkov writes in his essay "A Trip to the Salym Territory" (1911 year):

Further, Kartashov gives a chronicle of contacts between a man and a mammoth in XX century (based on materials by Y. Golovanov, M. Bykova, L. Osokina):

It is not for nothing that foreigners think that we have bears walking around Red Square. At least, mammoths a hundred years ago they saw here, and knew well.

This is not Yakutia or the north. This is the Volga region, the European part of Russia, the middle zone. And now Siberia:

It's about here.

But 30s … Everyday life memory of a mammoth:

It was here.

Here is the evidence 50s:

And here is the evidence 60s:

More evidence of the end 70s:

Of course, even after all this evidence, there are sure to be doubting readers from the category of those who say: "seeing is believing" … Especially for such people, although everything is clear anyway, we show a live mammoth, filmed with a phone, and a corresponding video.

OK it's all over Now - there are mammoths, and not even very far … The fact is obvious. Everyone who only had a chance to meet the mammoth saw him. These are geologists, hunters, inhabitants of the northern regions. You can even give a summary map of the discovered habitats of these animals.

It's time to figure it out - how it happened that a living and living animal was deeply buried in the ice age.

I am far from thinking that all of the above evidence remained unknown to the scientific world. Of course not. Paleontologists (those who study fossil animals) always begin their research with a review of existing information. But, even with this information in hand, they will rely on the work of authoritative predecessors, among whom neither geologists nor hunters are related.

It is interesting that I did not manage to find a specific scientist who "buried" the mammoths at all. As if it goes without saying. It is known that Tatishchev was also interested in them. He wrote an article in Latin, "The Legend of the Mammoth Beast." However, the information he received was the most contradictory, often mythical. Most of the evidence described the mammoth as present animal … Tatishchev could hardly make a conclusion about the extinction of this beast. Moreover, the currently dominant glacial theory of the death of northern elephants could have arisen not earlier than the end of the 19th century. It was then that the scientific community adopted the dogma of the great glaciation. This dogma lies at the foundation of modern paleontology. In this vein, it is clear artificial blindness of the scientific world.

But if you think about it, then this is not the end of it. Everything is much more interesting.

Mammoth, this animal has practically no enemies in nature … The climate of the middle zone and the taiga zone is very suitable for him. The food supply is clearly redundant. There are a lot of spaces untapped by man. Why shouldn't he enjoy life? Why not fully occupy the existing ecological niche? And he did not take it. It is too rare today to meet a person with this animal.

A catastrophe in which millions of mammoths died, obviously was. They died almost simultaneously. This is evidenced by the cemeteries of bones covered with loess (reclaimed soil). Quantity calculations tusksexported from Russia over the past 200 years, show more than a million pairs … Millions of mammoth heads populated an ecological niche in Eurasia at a time. Why isn't it right now?

If the catastrophe happened 13 thousand years ago, and some of the northern elephants survived, then they had plenty of time to restore the population. That did not happen. And here there are only two options: either they did not survive at all (version of the scientific world), or the catastrophe that knocked down the mammoth population was relatively recent (see Why are our forests young?). Since mammoths do exist, then more likely the second … They simply did not have time to recover. In addition, in recent centuries, a person armed with firearms and greed could already really pose a threat to them, hindering population growth.

I think that disputing the timing of the catastrophe is the most painful and unacceptable moment for the "supreme science". They are ready to do anything - for suppression facts, concealment evidence, massive zombie and so on, just to avoid even raising the question itself on this topic, since the accumulated avalanche of suppressed information does not leave them a chance in an open discussion. And this will be followed by many more, a lot of questions to which someone really does not want to answer.