In fact, Han Peacock wanted to ask, are the furry rhinoceros horns in the hands of those dealers mass-produced? Why can't they be sold out? With such a good thing, Han Peacock wants it too!
Therefore, Han Peacock suspected that what they were selling was horns! Horns! It was horns!
With so many reasons, does anyone still want to buy a batch of woolly rhinoceros horn products?
So, those guys selling woolly rhinoceros horns are just trying to be funny, right?
Han Peacock was naturally happy to go out to meet the bride, so he did not continue to stay in Belgrade, but went directly to Russia from here. [[(?〔]
It is already hot summer in other places, but Siberia seems to be in the belated spring.
The ice sheet began to revive, and the river that had been sleeping for a long time sang a happy song again. It rolled along the way, patting the frozen soil on the shore that still seemed sleepy from time to time, and sending cordial greetings.
At this time, Han Kongque and other people came to the Beresovka River Basin, which has produced mammoth fossils from ancient times to the present.
When the summer of 1900 came, the Beresovka River in Siberia also celebrated the new year with rolling waves.
Just as it paid its respects to the river bank, an animal remains was exposed from the soil. This is the famous mammoth remains fossil.
This specimen is now in the Leningrad Science Museum Exhibition Hall for people to visit, and Han Peacock even went to see it.
However, this is not the first time this has happened in Siberia. In 1692, a record of frozen mammoths became a hot topic among scholars. Some people think that this is the most original information, but it is not.
Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty was very knowledgeable and once commented on the book "The Mysterious Scripture". He said: "The Mysterious Scripture records that ice rats were born in the North Sea, lived in the ice, gnawed the ice and ate, and grew as big as an elephant over time.
, Death occurs when the ice breaks. Europa has seen it, and Senior Xie Zhuangmei also saw it when he was garrisoning Ulia Sutai."
The author of "Shen Yi Jing" is said to be Dongfang Shuo during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a scholar in the 2nd century BC.
After research, the book is definitely dated to the 6th century AD, that is, the period of the Northern and Southern Six Dynasties, and the author assumed the name of Dongfang Shuo.
The ice rat mentioned in the book is the mammoth. Because the ancients did not understand it, they mistakenly thought it lived in the water, so it is as mentioned above.
Kangxi testified about this: the Russian minister Europa once saw the corpse of the ice rat, and the court official also saw it as truth, which shows that what is contained in the "Shenyi Jing" is not false.
Another famous Chinese classic, "Taiping Yulan", also records this matter: "It eats grass and trees, and the meat weighs a thousand catties, which can be made into preserved meat... Its hair is eight feet long, and can be used as a mattress" and so on.
It can be seen that my country has already had records of mammoth fossils, at least 1,000 years earlier than abroad.
In addition, according to written records, Siberian residents have another occupation related to mammoths, which is ivory mining.
Whenever summer comes, countless people come to look for mammoth tusks along the Beresovka River, and Han Kongque and his party are just one of them.
Most of the ivory produced in modern times comes from Africa and Asia, because elephants on the earth gather in the savannahs and subtropical jungles of these two continents.
However, as the ivory trade is increasingly opposed by people, Siberia has become a hot spot for the ivory trade, and summer is naturally the hottest time.
Just under this vast ice sheet, there are many high-quality ivory buried as white as jade, and its value far exceeds its own value, because it is long enough to cause earth-shaking changes in the earth. This is mammoth ivory.
During the Kangxi period, some people from our country went to Siberia specifically to purchase this kind of ivory. There are many fossils of mammoth remains found there, and there are also their cemeteries on the New Siberian Islands.
The mammoth in Beresovka is quite complete, with its meat, blood and fur preserved, which is of great help to research.
Of course, if you find a real frozen mammoth, you will definitely not get scientific research results. There will also be other accessories, not to mention ivory, ivory and fur.
Don't think that mink is the best thing to keep out the cold. Mammoth fur is no less good.
In the Mammoth Museum in Moscow, Han Peacock saw a mammoth. It seemed to be concentrating with its eyes closed, making people suspicious that it would only open its eyes every day.
It is covered with long reddish-brown hair, which is relatively thick and hard, and is o.5 meters long.
Don't think that Mammoth only wears this coat. In fact, the one close to the body keeps you warmer.
There is a layer of fine hair under the coarse hair, usually about 2.5 centimeters long. These two thick clothes seem to be enough to help us cope with the winter, but they are still too thin for this animal that has lived in the ice and snow of Siberia for many years.
A little bit.
People use various ways to stay warm, while animals can only survive by relying on their own advantages. The 9 cm thick fat under the mammoth's skin makes two hump-like lumps bulge on the elephant's back, which also increases its resistance to wind and cold.
energy.
The mammoth tusks are thick and curve upward, like a sickle with an extra-large blade. They are 4 to 5 meters long. Each one weighs 400 kilograms, and its long trunk drags on the ground.
As a whole, its weight can reach more than 5 tons, and its appetite can be imagined. A rough estimate is that it is as much as 12 kilograms.
Until now, people can still identify the type of grass in the teeth of this mammoth. This is the general situation of the mammoth.
However, don't make the mistake of thinking that this animal only grows in the ice and snow of Siberia.
Mammoths lived on the continent from 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. From the frozen soil of the polar regions in the north to the grasslands in the south, mammoths can be found in huge numbers.
Therefore, they can be divided into two major categories geographically: Siberian mammoths and European mammoths.
Among the European Paleolithic artworks, there are many mammoth statues and paintings, depicting the scenes of mammoths and humans living together 10,000 to 20,000 years ago.
In Siberia, there are also such scenes, but not many. This time, Han Kongque discovered a cave hidden under the ice and snow. While sleeping in the cave at night, Han Kongque and the others discovered what was inside the cave.
mural.
The mural is a bit rough, but the hunting picture painted on it is still very clear. A large group of primitive people rounded up a mammoth, using homemade stone spears and stone axes to continuously attack it, making it unable to fight back, unable to escape, and cumbersome.
The elephant can only drag its long trunk and run around in panic among the hunters.
Finally, in the confrontation between the two sides, the weak elephant fell.
So, people rushed forward and happily took the loot back.
At night, men, women, old and young sit around the fire, eating fragrant elephant meat, with firelight and satisfied smiles on their faces. The intense scenes during the day linger in the minds of some people and cannot be erased for a long time. Gradually, they
A kind of aesthetic consciousness is formed and there is motivation for creation.
So, he picked up a carving tool and carved mammoths and hunting scenes on the cave walls. This is how the earliest human art was born.
Seeing the murals here, Han Peacock knew that there must be mammoths hidden in ice around because this is the home of mammoths.
In fact, the formation of mammoths hidden in ice is accidental. Therefore, when people by the Beresovka River were still relying on the river water to wash away the frozen soil in search of mammoths, Han Peacock had already deviated from the established path.
, heading towards the area he predicted.
It is naturally easier to find mammoths by the river, and it is also very simple. Just search around and dig up as long as there are mammoths washed out by the river.
However, such a mammoth is not a pure frozen mammoth. This kind of mammoth has no white tusks, no well-preserved fur, and no other unexpected gains.
Therefore, Korean peacocks specifically look for places with unstable geological structures, such as under hillsides, next to cliffs, or in places with rapid rivers.
These places may become traps at any time, and as long as they fall into such a trap, the weather conditions here will naturally form the wonder of mammoths hiding in ice.
After searching for several days, Han Peacock found many mammoth fossils buried in the river, but he could not find any mammoth fossils buried in the ice.
This time, Han Kongque and the others came to a cliff again, and slid along the cliff into a valley buried deep in snow, and right here, Han Kongque discovered a mammoth.
Judging from the environment at the scene, death came suddenly. Its stomach was full and there was food in its mouth, indicating that it died suddenly, not from starvation or illness.
Peacock Han released his spiritual consciousness and carefully perceived everything about this mammoth. Peacock Han even found some plants growing in late summer and early autumn in its stomach, proving that it died at the turn of summer and autumn.
According to observations, the mammoth died of suffocation and had a broken leg. Connecting this series of events, the scene of that day reappeared before our eyes.
The summer wind melted the frozen wasteland, and the rising water of the Beresovka River mixed with silt formed traps, waiting for prey to fall into the trap.
One day, a large group of mammoths were walking on the mountain adjacent to the river. The muddy mountain road made every step difficult for them.
Due to their heavy bodies and deep feet, it is quite laborious to pull them out, so they move forward slowly, looking around for food as they go.
Suddenly, the land beside the cliff became soft and unbearable. After the collapse, rocks and soil fell one after another, covering the sky and the earth.
The mammoth walking on it fell down and fell onto the river beach at the foot of the cliff. The incoming stones hurt its legs. It struggled to stand up, but unfortunately it sank deeper and deeper.
Finally, it left a weak cry and was swallowed up by the mud.
The harsh winter that is approaching in the blink of an eye seems to take pity on these unfortunate dead creatures, wrapping them up layer by layer like a large natural freezer, turning them into well-preserved frozen mammoths.
Then there is tens of thousands of years of anticipation, waiting for humans to excavate these ancient fossil remains. (To be continued.) 8