Mammoth

Examples of Mammoth in the following topics:

• The Pleistocene Extinction

  • In North America, the losses were quite dramatic and included the woolly mammoths (last dated about 4,000 years ago in an isolated population), mastodons, giant beavers, giant ground sloths, saber-toothed cats, and the North American camel, to name just a few .
  • The giant sloths disappeared, along with the mammoths, mastodons, and many other large animals, at the end of the Pleistocene Epoch.

• Art in Western Europe

  • The "Swimming Reindeer" is a mammoth tusk carving of two swimming reindeer that was found in France in 1866 .
  • The "Swimming Reindeer" is a mammoth tusk carving of two swimming reindeer that was found in France in 1866.

• The Stone Age

  • The most common animals in cave art are the more intimidating ones, like cave lions, woolly rhinoceroses, and mammoths.
  • Made of mammoth tusk and found in Germany.

• Paleolithic Sculpture

  • The Venus of Hohle Fels, a 6 cm figure of a woman carved from a mammoth's tusk, was discovered in Germany's Hohle Fels cave in 2008 and represents one of the earliest found sculptures of this type.
  • The Venus of Hohle Fels, a 6 cm figure of a woman carved from a mammoth's tusk, was discovered in Germany's Hohle Fels cave in 2008 and represents one of the earliest found sculptures of this type.

• Painting and Sculpture

  • The French neoclassical style would greatly contribute to the monumentalism of the French Revolution, as typified in the structures La Madeleine Church, which is in the form of a Greek temple, and the mammoth Panthéon (1764-1812) modeled on the ancient Roman Pantheon.

• Revolution in France

  • This monumentalist tendency is typified in the structure of La Madeleine church, which is in the form of a Greek temple, and the mammoth Panthéon (1764-1812) which today houses the tombs of prominent Frenchmen .

• Administrative Corruption

  • Earlier in 1922 Fall had leased naval petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome, Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills at favorable rates, and without competitive bidding, to Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company and Mammoth Oil, a subsidiary of Sinclair Oil.

• The New Era

  • The leases themselves were not illegal, but Fall accepted bribes from Mammoth Oil and Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company to secure the deals; he was later convicted and became the first member of a presidential cabinet to be sentenced to prison.

• Landscape Painting in the Romantic Period

  • American painters in this movement created works of mammoth scale in an attempt to capture the epic size and scope of the landscapes that inspired them.

• Fossil Formation

  • In addition, several mammoths and even a Neanderthal hunter have been discovered frozen in glaciers.