Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1919 — Mammoth and Man. [ARTICLE]

Mammoth and Man.

The first mammoth remains dug up in Europe were supposed to be those of gigantic men. In 1577 a learned professor at Lucerne, from a pelvis and one thigh bone, “reconstructed” a man 19 feet high. Nor was the mistake without excuse, Inasmuch as the-bones pf the mammoth wre remarkably homan like. The vertebrae look like magnified copies of human spine sections. and the same is true of the shoulder blade, the pelvis, the femur, etc. * -