"In America the evidence was long doubtful, but cannot be considered so any longer. Mastodon bones occur in this country in much more recent deposits than they do in Europe, often covered by only a few inches of soil or peat, and in such a state of preservation as to make it difficult to believe that they are more than a few centuries old."
FROM
MOUNDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.
BY
“The fourth discovery consisted of a carved stone pipe, also in the shape of an elephant or mastodon.”
(Stephen D Peet PhD, 1892 pg. 163)
"...on the evidence of the Davenpot pipes and the Davenport mastodon tablet, it now seemed clear that Mound Builders had been contemporaries of those beasts (elephants). By logical extension, the era of the Mound Builders must have been remote in time; and by further extension, the gap between the Mound Builders and the American Indians appeared huge. The great debate that had continued for most the century had been resolved to the satisfaction of the majority. The existence of the Mound Builders as a distinct, ancient, and vanished race had been established, and the voices of those who ascribed the mounds to the ancestors of recent Indian tribesmen were drowned out."
“Then a new voice was heard across the land: that of the United States Government, speaking through the instrumentality of the Smithsonian Institution. And the certainties of 1880 became the mythology of 1890″ (Robert Silverberg, Mound Builders of Ancient America, The Archaeology of a Myth, New York Graphic Society, 1968, p. 165).
This small "tea pot" was on display among the other Olmec "toys" which include a number of animals mounted on wheels -- a visual and evidentiary negation of the common claim that the people of Mesoamerica (and America in general) were unfamiliar with the wheel.
In 1999, this object went "missing" - Neither the Jalapa Museum staff, nor the Mexican government have been able to explain how or why...
by J. Eric S. Thompson
Copyright © 1962 University of Oklahoma Press.
John Ranking’s Historical researches on the conquest of Peru, Mexico, Bogota, Natchez, and Talomeco in the thirteenth century by the Mongols, accompanied with elephants: and the local agreement of history and tradition with the remains of elephants and mastodontes found in the New World (London 1827).
Mayan ruins at Copan, Honduras
Palanque, Schele #19080
Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck (1766-1875)
Possible;
Elephantoidea Gray, 1821
Rhynchotherium Falconer, 1868
Numidotherium Mahboubi et al., 1986
In 1825, Waldeck was hired as a hydraulic engineer by an English mining company and went to Mexico. He explored the Pre-Columbian ruins of the country, living in Palenque between May 1832 and July 1833.
In 1834, he was hired by Lord Kingsborough to travel to Uxmal and make drawings and architectural reconstructions. In 1838, Waldeck published Voyage pittoresque et archéologique dans la province d'Yucatan pendant les années 1834 et 1836 (Paris), a volume of illustrations of Mérida, Yucatán and Maya ruins.
When Haywood was going through the mounds in his area he assumed that the Indians were raising mammoths because mammoth bones were found among human bones. They also found Indian pipes in the shape of elephants.
“The latter (necklace) may have been produced in America, but the ivory beads most probably came from India; or the country in its vicinity, where the elephant is raised, and the ivory worked.”
(Haywood 1823, pg. 82)
“At the time they found the grave above mentioned, they also found other graves, and small pieces of decayed human bones, and bones of animals, amongst which was the jaw bone with the tusk attached to it, of some unknown animal. The jaw bone is about a foot long, having at the extremity a tusk one inch and a half in length. The tusk is in the same form as that of Cuvier’s mastodon, but has more curvature.”
(Haywood 1823 pg. 126)
When Haywood was going through the mounds in his area he assumed that the Indians were raising mammoths because mammoth bones were found among human bones. They also found Indian pipes in the shape of elephants.
The Iroquois have a legend about a large beast that caused havoc in a village. David Cusick attributes this beast to being a mastodon.
Maya murals from Bonampak depicting battle between several kingdoms ~790 A.D.
“The Naco Mammoth Kill Site is an archaeological site in southeast Arizona, near Naco, Arizona. The site was reported to the Arizona State Museum in September 1951 by Marc Navarrete, a local resident, after his father found two Clovis points in Greenbush Draw, while digging out the fossil bones of a mammoth. Emil Haury excavated the Naco mammoth site in April 1952. In only five days, Haury recovered the remains of a Columbian Mammoth that had been killed by the use of at least 8 Clovis points…“ -- see also Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site
At the El Fin del Mundo kill site in Sonora, Mexico, remains of an individual of Cuvierionius and another indeterminate gomphothere were found associated with Clovis spear points, suggesting that hunting may have played a role in its extinction.[24][14] The site was initially suggested to date to 13,390 years Before Present, however this date was later contested, and the site may be younger than this.[25]
Additionally, radiocarbon dates from La Estanzuela, Guatemala suggest Cuvierionius survival into the early Holocene (15,730 ± 50 to 9,539 ± 30 radiocarbon BP).[12]
Remains of Cuvieronius were found in association with man, and pieces of its hide and muscle tissue have been found in Chile:
South American fossils formerly attributed to mastodons are now believed to be Cuvieronius.
The related Stegomastodon occupied warmer, lower-altitude habitats in South America, while the smaller C. hyodon occupied cooler, higher-altitude Andean habitats. It has been C14 dated to as recently as 6,060 BP (4,040 BC) in Yumbo, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
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