VI.—The Mammoth in Siberia
We have surveyed the distribution of Mammoths' remains in Siberia, especially of those in which the soft parts have been preserved, and have found them distributed along its whole length from the Kara Sea to the peninsula of the Chukchi. We have seen that these remains are found in large number...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0016756800153749 2024-03-03T08:42:03+00:00 VI.—The Mammoth in Siberia Howorth, Henry H. 1880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800153749 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800153749 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Geological Magazine volume 7, issue 12, page 550-561 ISSN 0016-7568 1469-5081 Geology journal-article 1880 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800153749 2024-02-08T08:42:45Z We have surveyed the distribution of Mammoths' remains in Siberia, especially of those in which the soft parts have been preserved, and have found them distributed along its whole length from the Kara Sea to the peninsula of the Chukchi. We have seen that these remains are found in large numbers, and that the further north we travel, the more abundant do they become. That while in Central Siberia they are comparatively unfrequent, as we near the Arctic border-land, the river banks and tundras teem more and more with them, until in the Bear Islands and the islands of New Siberia the ground is largely composed of the bones of Mammoths and the associated animals. These very abnormal facts, which are now familiar enough, have naturally attracted a great amount of speculation, and the question has arisen on many sides, How came they here? As we have seen, the unsophisticated natives explain the presence among them of carcases of huge animals with their flesh intact, by the elementary theory that the animals are still alive and live underground, dying only when exposed to the sun light. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Chukchi Kara Sea New Siberia Siberia Cambridge University Press Arctic Kara Sea Geological Magazine 7 12 550 561 |
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We have surveyed the distribution of Mammoths' remains in Siberia, especially of those in which the soft parts have been preserved, and have found them distributed along its whole length from the Kara Sea to the peninsula of the Chukchi. We have seen that these remains are found in large numbers, and that the further north we travel, the more abundant do they become. That while in Central Siberia they are comparatively unfrequent, as we near the Arctic border-land, the river banks and tundras teem more and more with them, until in the Bear Islands and the islands of New Siberia the ground is largely composed of the bones of Mammoths and the associated animals. These very abnormal facts, which are now familiar enough, have naturally attracted a great amount of speculation, and the question has arisen on many sides, How came they here? As we have seen, the unsophisticated natives explain the presence among them of carcases of huge animals with their flesh intact, by the elementary theory that the animals are still alive and live underground, dying only when exposed to the sun light. |
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