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"And they also had horses, and asses, and there were elephants and cureloms and cumoms; all of which were useful unto man, and more especially the elephants and cureloms and cumoms."
"And they also had horses, and asses, and there were elephants and cureloms and cumoms; all of which were useful unto man, and more especially the elephants and cureloms and cumoms."
"There has hitherto been some question as to the identity of certain stone carvings , similar to that on Stela B from Copan , of which a portion is shown in Pl . 25 , fig. 8. This has even been interpreted as the trunk of an elephant or a mastodon, but is unquestionably a macaw's beak. " - 1910, Alfred Marston Tozzer and Glover Morrill Allen
Animal Figures in the Maya Codices, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volume IV, Number 3, (Cambridge: The Peabody Museum, 1910), pgs 25 & 343 (google books)
In 1910, this carving on Sela "B" in Copan, Honduras was officially declared to be "a Macaw's Beak"...
In 1910, this carving on Sela "B" in Copan, Honduras was officially declared to be "a Macaw's Beak"...
Three figures were selected by Dr. Spinden for the purpose of showing that the Copan elephant head (c) was to be identified with the head of the macaw shown in (b).
(a) The elephant-glvph from Stela B, drawn without it's riders...
(b) The real Blue Macaw, sculptured on a Copan monument.
"The ethnologists who claim that the creature represented is not an elephant but a macaw rely entirely on the most obscure, most crudely modelled and most damaged of the four profiles to explain their argument"
--- Alfred Maudslay, Elephants and Ethnologists, 1924, pgs 8-9
Alfred Maudslay, hotly disagreed with the Peabody staff, and said so in his work Elephants and Ethnologists, published in 1924
"In 1915 all three of us [A. Maudslay, Dr. W. H. R. Rivers and Mr. W. Perry] had become convinced that there was no longer any room for doubt as to the reality of the diffusion across the Pacific of the essential elements out of which the Pre-Columbian civilisation of America had been built up."
I wrote a letter to Nature , which was published on November 25th, 1915 (p. 340), calling attention to the fact that upon a stone monument at Copan, in Honduras, a sculptor, working several centuries before Christopher Columbus set out to discover the New World, had carved the picture of an unmistakable Indian elephant ridden by an equally characteristic turbaned mahout.
In the same year (1924) G. Elliott Smith pointed out the obserdity of this argument, because on the nearby Stela D, BOTH a "macaw" and an "Elephant" appear on the same monolith. -- Elephants and Ethnologists, p.82-83
In the same year (1924) G. Elliott Smith pointed out the obserdity of this argument, because on the nearby Stela D, BOTH a "macaw" and an "Elephant" appear on the same monolith. -- Elephants and Ethnologists, p.82-83
After Maudslay and Smith, showed evidence the Stelea clearly showed elephants AND actual Macaws...
After Maudslay and Smith, showed evidence the Stelea clearly showed elephants AND actual Macaws...
The Peabody museum decided to sent another team,
... who, after traveling back to Palenque, mysteriously "found" that, somehow, someone had "vandalized" the tops of both elephants... and broken off the "riders" ?!?
The Peabody museum then issued a statement, that where as, "The men" who had been "riding" these elephants, were now missing, "no conclusive decision" could be made, so their prior conclusion of "stylized parrots" would stand...
But, if you look carefully...
But, if you look carefully...
2x of the origional four men are still there...
And they admit "tusks"...
And they admit "tusks"...
But, the "smoking gun" is found on the famous
But, the "smoking gun" is found on the famous
"Table of 96 Glyphs" in Palanque...
"Table of 96 Glyphs" in Palanque...
where multiple examples of BOTH macaws and elephants appear...
where multiple examples of BOTH macaws and elephants appear...
Schele Number: 20100 - Current Location: bodega, site museum - cf. SD 136
Actual photos exist of this panel...
Actual photos exist of this panel...
And the smoking gun...
And the smoking gun...
Do "Macaws" have ...TUSKS?!?
Do "Macaws" have ...TUSKS?!?
Oddly enough, earlier Peabody explorers had actually dug up a Proboscidea skeleton...
"In the 19th century, crews digging canals in the middle of the state found mastodon bones in New Britain and Cheshire. There were other reports of mastodon found in Sharon. In 1913, when workmen were landscaping the estate of A.A. Pope in Farmington - now the Hill-Stead Art Museum - they found "a black devil'' in a bog: an almost complete adult mastodon skeleton."
"You can find them anywhere - in New England, the northern Midwest, in Alaska,'' Turner said. Fishermen have dredged up mastodon bones off the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey"
NOTES:
NOTES:
Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck (1766-1875), an early explorer of Mexico
William Berryman Scott's (1858-1947) "American Elephant Myths" from Scribner's magazine (April 1887)
G. Elliott Smith advocated Waldeck’s views in Elephants and Ethnologists (1924)
THE LINDA SCHELE PHOTO COLLECTION - http://www.famsi.org/research/schele/photo.html
Kerr Pre-Columbian Portfolio - http://research.mayavase.com/kerrportfolio.html
https://mormonbandwagon.com/dave/tribe-manasseh-3/
Haury, Emil W. (1953) "Artifacts with Mammoth Remains, Naco, Arizona : Discovery of the Naco Mammoth and the Associated Projectile Points". American Antiquity 19:1–14.
Haury, Emil W., E. B. Sayles, and William W. Wasley, 1986, "The Lehner Mammoth Site Southeastern Arizona". In Emil W. Haury's Prehistory of the American Southwest, edited by J. Jefferson Reid and David E. Doyel, pp. 99–145. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
"Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site". Archived from the original on 2008-01-01. Retrieved 2009-05-07
NOTE: Alfred Maudslay began the major archaeological work for which he is now best remembered at the Maya ruins of Quirigua and Copan where, with the help of Frank Sarg, he hired laborers to help clear and survey the structures. He was the first to describe the site of Yaxchilán. Sarg then introduced Maudslay to the newly found ruins in Tikal, and to reliable guide Gorgonio López. Later, in the 1880's with Teobert Maler, Alfred Maudslay explored Chichén
NOTE: Alfred Maudslay began the major archaeological work for which he is now best remembered at the Maya ruins of Quirigua and Copan where, with the help of Frank Sarg, he hired laborers to help clear and survey the structures. He was the first to describe the site of Yaxchilán. Sarg then introduced Maudslay to the newly found ruins in Tikal, and to reliable guide Gorgonio López. Later, in the 1880's with Teobert Maler, Alfred Maudslay explored Chichén
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