Wednesday, June 22, 2011

News! Mammoth Art

You've probably seen this already: Contemporary artistic depiction of non-woolly mammoth! From Florida.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-scientists-reveal-ice-age-art.html
http://io9.com/5814165/the-oldest-art-in-the-americas-depicts-a-13000-year-old-mammoth

Despite some sniping in the peanut gallery of the comments (so seldom is it worthwhile to read comments on internet news sites!) there's no obvious reason to doubt this and it looks exactly like a mammoth, unlike some Fortean examples that may or may not be intended as proboscidians.
http://scienceblogs.com/laelaps/2009/02/the_mystery_of_the_elephant_pi.php

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