There are mammoths today. They live in remote places, and people periodically meet with them. The main mystery: why does the "supreme" science not want everyone to know about it? What are they hiding from us? Maybe mammoths died out incorrectly? …
On the issue of mammoths, I, like most people, have been in the illusion for a long time. I took my word for it that they became extinct in the last ice age. He knew that their remains were found in the permafrost, and thought about the possibilities of cloning this amazing ancient animal. But recently it happened to me to re-read Turgenev's story "Khor and Kalinych" from the cycle "Notes of a Hunter". There is an interesting phrase: "…" Yes, here I am a man, and you see … "At this word Khor raised his leg and showed a boot, probably made of mammoth skin …"
In order to write this phrase, Turgenev needed to know several things, rather strange for the middle of the 19th century in our current understanding. He should have known that there was such a mammoth beast, and know. what his skin was. He should have known about the availability of this skin. Indeed, judging by the text, the fact that an ordinary man living in a swamp wears mammoth leather boots was not something out of the ordinary for Turgenev. However, this thing is still shown as somewhat unusual, uncommon.
It should be recalled that Turgenev wrote his notes almost like documentaries, without fiction. That's why they are notes. He simply conveyed his impressions of meeting interesting people. And it happened in the Oryol province, and not at all in Yakutia, where mammoth cemeteries are found. There is an opinion that Turgenev expressed himself allegorically, referring to the thickness and quality of the boot. But why not "elephant skin" then? Elephants were well known in the 19th century. But mammoths …
According to the official version, which we have to debunk, awareness of them was then negligible. One of the first "academic" skeletons of a mammoth with preserved remains of soft tissues was found by the hunter O. Shumakov in the Lena River delta, on the Bykovsky Peninsula in 1799. And this was a great rarity for science. In 1806 the botanist of the Academy M. N. Adams organized the excavation of the skeleton and took it to the capital. The exhibit was collected and exhibited at the Kunstkamera, and later transferred to the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences. Only these bones could Turgenev see. Half a century will pass before the discovery of the Berezovsky mammoth and the creation of the first stuffed animal (1900). How did he know what kind of skin the mammoth had, and even determined it offhand?
So, whatever one may say, the phrase dropped by Turgenev is puzzling. I'm not even talking about the fact that the skin of an "ever-frozen" mammoth is not at all suitable for furrier business. She loses her qualities.
Did you know that Turgenev is not the only writer of the 19th century who let slip about the "extinct beast"? None other than Jack London, in his story "The Shard of the Tertiary Era", conveyed the story of a hunter who met a living mammoth in the vastness of northern Canada. In gratitude for the treat, the narrator presented the author with his mukluks (moccasins), sewn from the skin of an unprecedented trophy. At the end of the story, Jack London writes:
“… And all those of little faith, I advise you to visit the Smithsonian Institution. If they make recommendations and arrive at the appointed time, they will no doubt be received by Professor Dolvidson. Mukluks are now kept with him, and he will confirm, if not how they were obtained, then, in any case, what material went to them. He authoritatively claims that they are sewn from the skin of a mammoth, and the entire scientific world agrees with him. What else do you want?.."
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However, the Tobolsk Museum of Local Lore also kept a 19th century harness made of mammoth skin. Come on, why lick the skin when there is enough information about living mammoths. A lot of scattered evidence was collected by the candidate of technical sciences Anatoly Kartashov in his work "Siberian mammoths - is there any hope of seeing them alive". He waited for a reaction to his texts, from the scientific world and in general, but he seemed to be ignored. Let's get acquainted with these facts. Let's start from the early times:
“Probably the first person to tell the world about Siberian mammoths was the Chinese historian and geographer Sima Qian (II century BC). In his "Historical Notes", reporting about the north of Siberia, he writes about the representatives of the distant ice age as … living animals! "Among the animals are found … huge wild boars, northern elephants in bristles and northern rhinos are a genus." There are woolly rhinos in addition to mammoths! The Chinese scientist is not talking about their fossil state at all - he is talking about living things that have lived in Siberia as far back as the 3rd-2nd centuries BC."
I myself have not read these "Historical Notes"; such a serious researcher as M. G. Bykova, hers is rewritten by H. Nepomnyashy, and for both of them - me.
As for the 2nd century BC, one can hardly trust this dating, since Chinese history was artificially extended into the past to infinity. However, in our case, this does not change the essence at all. "Historical Notes" of Sim Qian is clearly not 13 thousand years old, that is, it was certainly after the Ice Age. And here is the testimony of the 16th century:
“… The Ambassador of the Austrian Emperor Croat Sigismund Herberstein, who visited Muscovy in the middle of the 16th century, wrote in 1549 in his“Notes on Muscovy”: in Siberia“… there is a great variety of birds and various animals, such as sables, martens, beavers, ermines, squirrels and an animal walrus in the ocean … Besides, Ves, just like polar bears, wolves, hares … . Pay attention: in a row with quite real beavers, squirrels and walrus there is a certain, if not fabulous, then certainly mysterious and unknown, Weight.
However, this weight could be unknown only to Europeans, and for local residents this, possibly rare and endangered species, did not represent anything mysterious, not only in the 16th century, but more than three centuries later. In 1911, P. Gorodkov, a Tobolsk resident, wrote the essay "A Trip to the Salym Region". It was published in the XXI edition of the “Yearbook of the Tobolsk Provincial Museum” for 1911, and among other interesting things, which we will talk about below, there are the following lines: “… the Salym Khanty call“the mammoth pike”“all”. "This monster was covered with thick long hair and had large horns, sometimes" all "started such a fuss with each other that the ice on the lakes broke with a terrible roar."
It turns out that mammoths walked with us in the 16th century. Almost everyone knew about them, since even the Austrian ambassador received information. And again the 16th century, this time the legend:
“There is also another legend that in 1581 the warriors of the famous conqueror of Siberia Ermak saw huge hairy elephants in the dense taiga. Experts are still lost in conjecture: who did the glorious warriors see? Ordinary elephants in those days were already well known: they were found at the courts of governors in zoological gardens and in the royal menagerie."
And right after that, we smoothly move on to the testimony of the 19th century:
“The New York Herald newspaper wrote that US President Jefferson (1801-1809), interested in reports from Alaska about mammoths, sent a messenger to the Eskimos. The envoy of President Jefferson, returning, claimed absolutely fantastic things: according to the Eskimos, mammoths can still be found in remote areas in the northeast of the peninsula. True, the envoy did not see the living mammoths with his own eyes, but he brought special weapons of the Eskimos to hunt them. And this is not the only case known to history. There are lines about Eskimo weapons for hunting mammoths in an article published by a certain Alaska traveler in San Francisco in 1899. The question arises: why would Eskimos make and store weapons for hunting animals that died out at least 10 thousand years ago? Material evidence, however … However, indirect."
Of course, for 300 years, mammoths have not gone anywhere. And now the end of the 19th century. They were seen again:
“The McClures Magazine (October 1899) in H. Tukman’s story entitled“The Murder of the Mammoth”states:“The last mammoth was killed in the Yukon in the summer of 1891”. Of course, now it is difficult to say what is true in this story and what is literary fiction, but at that time the story was considered to be true …”.
Gorodkov, already known to us, writes in his essay "A Trip to the Salym Territory" (1911):
“According to the Ostyaks, mammoths live in the Kintusovsky sacred forest, as in other forests, they are near the river and in the river itself … Often in winter you can see wide cracks on the ice of the river, and sometimes you can see that the ice is split and shattered into a multitude of medium-sized ice floes - all these are visible signs and results of the mammoth's activity: an animal playing out and diverging with horns and back breaks the ice. Recently, about 15-26 years ago, there was such a case on the Bachkul lake. Mammoth by its nature is an animal meek and peaceful, but affectionate towards people; when meeting a man, the mammoth not only does not attack him, but even clings and caresses him. In Siberia, one often has to listen to the stories of local peasants and come across such an opinion that mammoths still exist, but it is only very difficult to see them … now there are few mammoths left, they,like most large animals are now becoming rare."
Further, Kartashov cites a chronicle of contacts between humans and mammoths in the 20th century (based on materials by Y. Golovanov, M. Bykova, L. Osokina):
“Albert Moskvin from Krasnodar, who lived for a long time in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, talked with people who themselves saw woolly elephants. Here is a quote from the letter: "Obda (the Mari name of the mammoth), according to the Mari eyewitnesses, used to meet more often than now, in a herd of 4-5 heads (the Mari call this phenomenon obda-saunas - the wedding of mammoths)." The Mari told him in detail about the lifestyle of mammoths, about their appearance, about relationships with cubs, people, and even about the funeral of a dead animal. According to them, a kind and gentle obda, offended by people, at night turned the corners of barns, baths, broke fences, while making a dull trumpet sound. According to the stories of local residents, even before the revolution, mammoths were forced to move to a new place in the villages of Nizhnie Shapy and Azakovo, which were in the area that is now called Medvedevsky. The stories contain many interesting and surprising details, but there is a strong belief that there is no fantasy or even just plain plausibility in them."
It is not for nothing that foreigners think that we have bears walking around Red Square. At least, mammoths were seen here a hundred years ago, and well known.
This is not Yakutia or the north. This is the Volga region, the European part of Russia, the middle zone. And now Siberia:
“In 1920, two Russian hunters in the area between the Ob and Yenisei rivers discovered the tracks of a giant animal at the edge of the forest. It was between the rivers Pur and Taz. The oval tracks were about 70 cm long and about 40 cm wide. The distance between the tracks of the front and hind feet was about four meters. The enormous size of the beast could be judged by the decent heaps of manure that came across from time to time. Would a normal person miss such a unique opportunity to catch up and see an animal of unprecedented size? Of course not. So the hunters followed the trail and after a few days they caught up with two monsters. From a distance of about three hundred meters, they watched the giants for some time. The animals were covered with a long dark brown tusk and had sharply curved white tusks. They moved slowly and gave the general impression of elephants,dressed in fur coats."
It's about here.
But the 30s. Everyday life memory of a mammoth:
“In the thirties, the hunter-hunter Semyon Yegorovich Kachalov, as a child, heard loud snoring, noise and splashes of water at night near Lake Syrkovoye. Anastasia Petrovna Lukina - the mistress of the house, - calming the boy, said that it was a mammoth making noise. Mammoths live nearby in a bog in the taiga, they often come to this lake, and she saw them more than once. Kachalov told this story to Nikolai Pavlovich Avdeev, a biologist from Chelyabinsk, when he was in the village of Salym during his independent expedition to the area of Tobolsk.
It was here.
Here is evidence from the 50s:
“The story of the senior huntsman of the district Valentin Mikhailovich D.:“… when I was a first-year student of the institute, during the holidays the fish receiver Y. told me personally an exciting story. By the way, you need to know that when two pine forests almost converge as capes, spreading the fog (shallow lake) into two parts, the narrowest place on the water is called a gate. So, according to Ya., He drove through the gates through our fog and noticed an unusual splash. I thought I should see what kind of fish this is? And he stopped. Suddenly, like a shock of hay rises from the depths. Looked closely - the coat is dark brown, like a wet fur seal. He quietly moved into the reeds about five meters, while he himself examines. Either a muzzle, or a face - I just couldn't make out. The sound made a hissing: "Fo-o" - as in an empty dish. And then it sank into the water …”This incident happened in 1954. On Valentin Mikhailovich, this story made such an impression that he went all the way down in that shallow place to which the narrator referred. I found a deep hole where crucian carp usually lays for the winter, measured it …
In the 50s, I staged with my son a network. The weather was very calm. A steady fog spread over the lake. Suddenly I hear a splash of water, as if someone is walking on it. Usually in this place, moose crossed the shallow water to Cape P.. So I decided - the elk, I prepared to kill. He turned the boat towards the sound, took the gun. Before the boat itself, a round and black large muzzle of an unknown beast appeared from the water. Round and meaningful eyes were staring at me. Making sure that it was not an elk, he did not shoot, but quickly turned the boat around and leaned on the oars. The son who was sitting behind me also saw "this" and began to cry. We rocked for a long time on the waves that arose”. Story S., 70 years old, village T. Was it a mammoth? To see the eyes staring at close range - and not notice the trunk? However, who knows what a person manages to notice in such a stressful situation …
“During these years, my fellow villager and I crossed the fog near the cape. Suddenly, near the shore, they saw a huge dark carcass that swayed on the water. The waves from it reached the boat and lifted it. They got scared and turned back. " P.'s story, 60 years old, village T ".
And here is the evidence from the 60s:
“In September 1962, a Yakut hunter told geologist Vladimir Pushkarev that before the revolution, hunters had repeatedly seen huge hairy animals“with large noses and fangs”, and ten years ago he himself saw footprints“the size of a basin”unknown to him.
More evidence from the late 70s:
"It was the summer of 1978, - recalls the foreman of the prospectors S. I. Belyaev, our artel was washing gold on one of the unnamed tributaries of the Indigirka River. In the midst of the season, an interesting incident occurred. In the hour before dawn, when the sun had not yet risen, a dull stamp was suddenly heard near the parking lot. The prospectors sleep a little. Jumping to their feet, they stared at each other in surprise with a mute question: "What is this?" As if in response, a splash of water was heard from the river. We, grabbing our guns, stealthily began to make our way in that direction. When we rounded the rocky ledge, an incredible picture presented itself to our eyes. In the shallow river there were about ten god knows where … mammoths came from. Huge, shaggy animals slowly drank the icy water. For about half an hour, we gazed at these fabulous giants as if spellbound. And those, having quenched their thirst, ceremoniously one after another went deep into the forest thicket … ".
Of course, even after all these testimonies, there will certainly be doubting readers, from the category of those who say: "Until I see, I will not believe." Especially for such people, although everything is clear anyway, we show a live mammoth, filmed with a phone, and a corresponding video.
Well, that's all - there are mammoths, and not even very far away. The fact is obvious. Everyone who only had a chance to meet the mammoth saw it. These are geologists, hunters, residents of the northern regions. You can even give a summary map of the discovered habitats of these animals.
It's time to figure out how it came about that a living and living animal was deeply buried in the ice age.
I am far from thinking that all the above evidence remained unknown to the scientific world. Of course not. Paleontologists (those who study fossil animals) always begin their research with a review of existing information. But, even with this information in hand, they will rely on the work of authoritative predecessors, among whom neither geologists nor hunters belong.
Interestingly, I did not manage to find a specific scientist who “buried” the mammoths at all. As if it goes without saying. It is known that Tatishchev was also interested in them. He wrote an article in Latin, "The Tale of the Mammoth Beast." However, the information he received was the most contradictory, often mythical. Most of the evidence described the mammoth as a living animal. Tatishchev could hardly make a conclusion about the extinction of this beast. Moreover, the currently dominant glacial theory of the death of northern elephants could have arisen no earlier than the end of the 19th century. It was then that the scientific community adopted the dogma of the great glaciation. This dogma lies at the foundation of modern paleontology. In this vein, the artificial blindness of the scientific world is understandable.
But if you think about it, this is not the end of it. Everything is much more interesting.
Mammoth is an animal that has practically no enemies in nature. The climate of the middle zone and the taiga zone is very suitable for him. The food supply is clearly excessive. There are a lot of spaces untapped by man. Why shouldn't he enjoy life? Why not fully occupy the existing ecological niche? And he didn't take it. It is too rare today to meet a person with this animal.
The catastrophe in which millions of mammoths died was clearly there. They died almost simultaneously. This is evidenced by the cemeteries of bones covered with loess (washed soil). Calculations of the number of tusks exported from Russia over the past 200 years show more than a million pairs. Millions of mammoth heads populated an ecological niche in Eurasia at a time. Why isn't it right now?
If the catastrophe happened 13 thousand years ago, and some of the northern elephants survived, then they had plenty of time to restore the population. That did not happen. And here there are only two options: either they did not survive at all (the version of the scientific world), or the catastrophe that knocked down the mammoth population was relatively recent (see Why are our forests young?). Since there are mammoths, the latter is more likely. They simply did not have time to recover. In addition, in recent centuries, a person armed with firearms and greed could already really pose a threat to them, hindering population growth.
I think that challenging the timing of the catastrophe is the most painful and unacceptable moment for "supreme science". They are ready to go to any lengths - to suppress facts, concealment of evidence, mass brainwashing, etc., just to avoid even raising the question itself on this topic, since the accumulated avalanche of suppressed information leaves them no chance in an open discussion. And this will be followed by many more, a lot of questions to which someone really does not want to answer.
Alexey Artemiev
The materials of the article formed the basis of the film "When did mammoths die out?"