

Can old stories remember events from thousands of years before their telling?


Backs like hills? Long teeth? Could these monsters be mammoths or mastodons?
Several generations? Since mammoths are thought to have gone extinct approximately 11,000 years ago, those are very long generations, indeed. But longer still is the memory of the people who were still telling stories about these creatures.

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