contracycle
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Message 16 of 17 (160455)
11-17-2004 10:26 AM
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I read some time ago that its possible the greeks mistook elephant skulls, with a big central cavity, for the skull of the cyclops. This was based on the idea of their being pygmy elephants (not mammoths as far as I recall) on the mnediterranean isles.
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Mammuthus
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I read that as well. In addition, Estonians who found mammoth bones, and completely hashed the reconstruction of the animals thought that mammoths were giant burrowing creatures.
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