DOWNSPOEM: Lines Composed Upon Recalling that Mammoths Actually Roamed the Slopes of the Downs, as did the Magdalenians (Cave-Painter Types)
This, too, is Arcadia
Where the Woolly Ganesh became the hills
Long-haired trumpeters sat down and said:
“We shall become this place;
It shall become us, dream us,
And we it.”
Mount Caburn, East Sussex, seen from the floodplain south of Lewes. One seems to see the upper profile of a mammoth, the long back, the hump of the head, the trunk extending off to the right.
Magdalenean Cave Painting from Roufignac, around 15,000 BCA similar profile is presented by Wolstonbury Hill, further west along the Downs, (due North of Brighton) when seen looking west from Ditchling. For a beautiful but rather small photo of
this see en.wikipedia.org/
Mammoth piece in ivory, one of the oldest pieces of art ever found, about 35,000 years old.
2 comments:
Hi There,
my name is Lino Loi, and I am a scientist. I am writing a review paper on the use of cloning for restoring extinct species, including the wholly mammoth. I would like to use this nice picture of the ivory statur of a mammoth on oyu page, can I use it? Are there any pending copyright? Do you have more info about it? Where was it found?
Thank you a lot in advance,
sincerely yours,
Lino Loi
Behind Charleston to the South lay Firle Beacon and its supporting downs, like a row of half-submerged ancient elephants. Their massive grey humps protected us from the west wind, which brought not only the rain but a sea mist which rolled down their sides and hid them from view. Angelica Garnet (daughter of Vanessa Bell, niece of Virginia Woolf) in Deceived with Kindness, Chapter 2, p.46.
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