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[QUOTE]Originally posted by supercar: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by XicanConnection: [b] Interestingly, elephants were originally indigenous to North America, but the Bering Ithsmus during the Ice Age gave them the opportunity to migrate to Europe, Asia, and Africa. The mammoths and mastodons that remained in North America would eventually perish as the immigrant humans hunted them to extinction. In Mesoamerica, these humans would be classified as [URL=http://members.aol.com/emdelcamp/tepexpan.wav] Texpapan[/URL] Man, who settled into the region by 10,000 B.P. Mastodons would not become extinct until 8,000 B.P. - nearly four thousand years after their extinction north of Mesoamerica. So, yes the possibility of the memory of elephants beign past down generation to generation does excist.[/b][/QUOTE] [b]You didn't account for the fact that artifacts and artwork of these didn't exist in the many thousand years preceding the Olmec civilization.[/b]Did they forget to represent these creatures in their artifacts right before the Olmec culture? Why did elephant depictions just start to appear with the advent of that civilization? Besides, If the elephants could travel to Africa and people hunted for them during era you described, why are they still in Africa and Asia. Surely some elephants would have still existed in parts of America! Native Americans had hunted bisons daily for food and other stuff, but bisons are still present in America. At any rate, if the ancestors of Olmecs were aware of such animal, they would have been represented in the artwork in the years preceeding the Olmec culture! Evidence of such artwork hasn't been found. [This message has been edited by supercar (edited 19 July 2004).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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