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Image from page 58 of "Secrets of earth and sea" (1920)
Site in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) France
Title: Secrets of earth and sea
Identifier: cu31924031227212
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929
Subjects: Science; Natural history; Archaeology; Art, Primitive
Publisher: London, Methuen & co. ltd
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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supported by wooden poles. They are called " tectiforms " by the French explorers. The bones and teeth of the mammoth are very common in the river gravels and clays of Western Europe and England, and a complete skull, with its tusks, dug up at Ilford, in the east of London, is in the Natural History Museum. Frozen carcasses of this animal are found in Northern Siberia, and two showing much of the skin and hair are in the museum of Petrograd. There is no tradition or knowledge of the mammoth among living races of men. The natives of Siberia, who have from time immemorial done a large trade in the ivory, regard the tusks as " horns," Fig. io.
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Site in Aquitaine:Dordogne (24) France
Title: Secrets of earth and sea
Identifier: cu31924031227212
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929
Subjects: Science; Natural history; Archaeology; Art, Primitive
Publisher: London, Methuen & co. ltd
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.
Text Appearing Before Image:
supported by wooden poles. They are called " tectiforms " by the French explorers. The bones and teeth of the mammoth are very common in the river gravels and clays of Western Europe and England, and a complete skull, with its tusks, dug up at Ilford, in the east of London, is in the Natural History Museum. Frozen carcasses of this animal are found in Northern Siberia, and two showing much of the skin and hair are in the museum of Petrograd. There is no tradition or knowledge of the mammoth among living races of men. The natives of Siberia, who have from time immemorial done a large trade in the ivory, regard the tusks as " horns," Fig. io.
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