Wiesbaden (mammut-newspaper) - year-old mammoths, of which not only teeth and bones, but also the remains of fur, meat and their last food have been preserved to this day, are among the most exciting finds from the Ice Age (Pleistocene) from about 2.6 to 11,700 years. An overview of sensational discoveries of mammoth carcasses or mammoth mummies are worth reading the book "mammoth find in Siberia" Dick Mol, Christian de Marliave and Bernard Buigues:
The Adams mammoth
1799, the first complete carcass of a mammoth on the delta of the Lena River was discovered by a Tungus hunters. He took only the tusks and left the rest of the carcass are. Seven years later, the Russian botanist Mikhail Adams hid the skeleton and took it to the Zoological Museum in St. Petersburg, where the Adams mammoth main attraction was. Add to this the discovery of another mammoth tusks.
The Berezovka-Mammmut
1901 the Academy of Sciences heard from a complete mammoth carcasses on the banks of the River Berezovka. As an expedition to a five-month journey last arrived at the scene, it was an excavation in the late summer. Therefore, we built a hut on the Fund and the heated floor. Of the carcass was left only about half, after he had been exposed to the air, and hungry animals. The remains were cut into pieces, loaded on sleds and taken to the Trans-Siberian Railway. The transport was completed in St. Petersburg, where the mammoth prepared stuffed and exhibited in the Museum fund position.
The mammoth baby "Dima" As a
been most spectacular find is a mummified baby mammoth that was discovered by gold miners in the region of Magadan in eastern Siberia, as they took a bulldozer to work. To the Time of death, seven months old mammoth was named after a nearby river in the name of "Dima". It can be admired together with the Adams mammoth and mammoth-Berezovka in the Zoological Museum in St. Petersburg.
discovered Jarkow The Mammoth
1997 Dolgan reindeer herder Gennady Jarkow in the tundra of the Taimyr Peninsula, mammoth tusk, which stood about 30 centimeters from the ground. When he tried to excavate the tusk, he came upon a second and he was able to unscrew the two tusks from the skull. From this mammoth carcasses found out the Cerpoplex / Mammuthus team that removed in May 1998 was found, about 250 kilometers northeast of the city of Khatanga in northern Siberia, traveled. The carcass of the mammoth-Jarkow was recovered in this and another expedition in the autumn of 1999. It is studied in the permanently frozen ground beneath the city of Khatanga artisan gelato laboratories in a place in which there is a temperature of minus 12 degrees Celsius.
order of "mammoth find in Siberia" at:
http://www.amazon.de/Mammutsuche-Sibirien-Dick-Mol/dp/3981046927
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