The Fate Of The Mammoth
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The Fate Of The Mammoth
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Author : Claudine Cohen
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2002-04-02
The Fate Of The Mammoth written by Claudine Cohen and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-02 with Nature categories.
Reveals new information about the mammoth elephant, and about the science that grew up around its discovery.
The Fate Of The Mammoth
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Author : Claudine Cohen
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date :
The Fate Of The Mammoth written by Claudine Cohen and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Science categories.
From cave paintings to the latest Siberian finds, woolly mammoths have fascinated people across Europe, Asia, and North America for centuries. Remains of these enormous prehistoric animals were among the first fossils to be recognized as such, and they have played a crucial role in the birth and development of paleontology. In this lively, wide-ranging look at the fate of the mammoth, Claudine Cohen reanimates this large mammal with heavy curved tusks and shaggy brown hair through its history in science, myth, and popular culture. Cohen uses the mammoth and the theories that naturalists constructed around it to illuminate wider issues in the history of science, showing how changing views about a single object reveal the development of scientific methods, practices, and ideas. How are fossils discovered, reconstructed, displayed, and interpreted? What stories are told about them, by whom, and how do these stories reflect the cultures and societies in which they are told? To find out, Cohen takes us on a grand tour of the study of mammoth remains, from England, Germany, and France to Russia and America, and from the depths of Africa to the frozen frontiers of Alaska and Siberia, where intact mammoth corpses have been discovered in the permafrost. Along the way, she shows how paleontologists draw on myth and history, as well as on scientific evidence, to explore the deep history of the earth and of life. Cohen takes her history from the sixteenth century right up to the present, when researchers are using molecular biology to retrieve mammoth DNA, calling up dreams of cloning the mammoth and one day seeing herds of woolly mammoths roaming the frozen steppes.
Ice Age Mammoth
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Author : Barbara Hehner
language : en
Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers
Release Date : 2002
Ice Age Mammoth written by Barbara Hehner and has been published by Crown Books For Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Animals, Fossil categories.
Describes where and how wooly mammoths lived and died and speculates on the possiblity of reviving the species through cloning or in vitro fertilization.
Ice Age Mammoth
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Author : Barbara Hehner
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2002-10-01
Ice Age Mammoth written by Barbara Hehner and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes where and how wooly mammoths lived and died and speculates on the possiblity of reviving the species through cloning or in vitro fertilization.
Mammoths
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Author : Adrian Lister
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Mammoths written by Adrian Lister and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Nature categories.
Contains expert information on the natural history and characteristics of mammoths, telling where and how they lived, what they ate and why they died. Includes information on the latest research and fossil discoveries around the world.
Discovering The Mammoth A Tale Of Giants Unicorns Ivory And The Birth Of A New Science
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Author : John J. McKay
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-08-08
Discovering The Mammoth A Tale Of Giants Unicorns Ivory And The Birth Of A New Science written by John J. McKay and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-08 with Nature categories.
The fascinating saga of solving the mystery of this ancient animal who once roamed the north country—and has captivated our collective imagination ever since. Today, we know that a mammoth is an extinct type of elephant that was covered with long fur and lived in the north country during the ice ages. But how do you figure out what a mammoth is if you have no concept of extinction, ice ages, or fossils? Long after the last mammoth died and was no longer part of the human diet, it still played a role in human life. Cultures around the world interpreted the remains of mammoths through the lens of their own worldview and mythology. When the ancient Greeks saw deposits of giant fossils, they knew they had discovered the battle fields where the gods had vanquished the Titans. When the Chinese discovered buried ivory, they knew they had found dragons’ teeth. But as the Age of Reason dawned, monsters and giants gave way to the scientific method. Yet the mystery of these mighty bones remained. How did Enlightenment thinkers overcome centuries of myth and misunderstanding to reconstruct an unknown animal? The journey to unravel that puzzle begins in the 1690s with the arrival of new type of ivory on the European market bearing the exotic name "mammoth." It ends during the Napoleonic Wars with the first recovery of a frozen mammoth. The path to figuring out the mammoth was traveled by merchants, diplomats, missionaries, cranky doctors, collectors of natural wonders, Swedish POWs, Peter the Great, Ben Franklin, the inventor of hot chocolate, and even one pirate. McKay brings together dozens of original documents and illustrations, some ignored for centuries, to show how this odd assortment of characters solved the mystery of the mammoth and, in doing so, created the science of paleontology.
The Mammoth And The Flood
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Author : Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
The Mammoth And The Flood written by Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Deluge categories.
Mammoth
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Author : John Varley
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-05-30
Mammoth written by John Varley and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-30 with Fiction categories.
Not content with investing his fortune and watching it grow, multibillionaire Howard Christian buys rare cars that he actually drives, acquires collectible toys that he actually plays with, and builds buildings that defy the imagination. But now his restless mind has turned to a new obsession: cloning a mammoth… In a barren province of Canada, a mammoth hunter financed by Christian has made the discovery of a lifetime: an intact frozen woolly mammoth. But what he finds during the painstaking process of excavating the huge creature baffles the mind. Huddled next to the mammoth is the mummified body of a Stone Age man around 12,000 years old. And he is wearing a wristwatch. It looks like Howard Christian is going to get his wish—and more…
The Mammoth Quest
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Author : Calvin Smith
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-28
The Mammoth Quest written by Calvin Smith and has been published by Dorrance Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-28 with Fiction categories.
The Mammoth Quest: An Epic Expedition into the Past By: Calvin Smith After a 45-year career as a museologist, archaeologist, paleontologist and historian, Calvin B. Smith retired the first time after a 20-year tenure at Baylor University as founder and Chair of the Department of Museum Studies, Director of the Strecker Museum Complex and the Waco Mammoth Site that has recently been designated as a National Monument. Although he has written dozens of articles, monographs and chapters in texts, this is his first novel, an action adventure narrative about the first person to be transported back in time to 13,000 years ago in an attempt to discern the origin, culture and livelihood of the Clovis people who are known to have hunted and killed mammoths with stone tipped darts cast with an atlatl. In Part I, the main character encounters several bands of these early Americans and interacts with them for a year. He experiences many adventures during his journey back in time joining in hunts, including participating in a mammoth kill and is given a widow who accompanies him on the last leg of his entrada. In Part II, after much deliberation the main character decides that he should also be the one to go back to the Folsom Period, 11,500 years ago in an attempt to discover the fate of these immigrants into a new world. He decides to make a 600 mile trek from a known lithic resource, the Alibates Flint Quarry, in north Texas to the largest recorded Folsom campsite, Lindenmeier, in northern Colorado. During the second venture, he finds and lives with a small group of these people until he reenters the 21st century. The ending has a controversial encounter but one that is becoming more plausible as a result of recent archaeological research, documentation and publication.
Prehistoric Monsters
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Author : Allen A. Debus
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2009-11-30
Prehistoric Monsters written by Allen A. Debus and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-30 with Nature categories.
Over centuries, discoveries of fossil bones spawned legends of monsters such as giants and dragons. As the field of earth sciences matured during the 19th century, early fossilists gained understanding of prehistoric creatures such as Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Stegosaurus. This historical study examines how these genuine beasts morphed in the public imagination into mythical, powerful engines of destruction and harbingers of cataclysm, taking their place in popular culture, film, and literature as symbols of "lost worlds" where time stands still.