Talk:Columbian mammoth

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Extinction date?

The second paragraph is terribly contradictory on when the animal went extinct. can anyone clear this up? Murderbike (talk) 03:37, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Waco, TX, record ?

We read in the article:

   The Waco Mammoth Site in Waco, TX holds the record for the largest known
   concentration of skeletons of mammoths believed to have died in the same event.[3]

The word "record" usually implies (or means) an extreme that is measurable and numerically quantifiable. (Otherwise, how do you really know it is a record, as compared with other instances?) So, when I read the above sentence, I instinctively was waiting to read on, and learn the *number* of skeletons that gives the Waco site record status. But no such information follows that sentence in the article.

Now, perhaps that number is not known, even if only to the writer, or is not being disclosed for some other reason. But then I would have expected something more like

   The Waco Mammoth Site in Waco, TX is by far the largest known
   concentration of [...]

Because, once again, citing an instance as a "record" would seem to require that the fact in question is quantifiably verifiable and also, assuming it actually is, that that information be shared with the reader.

(Or maybe not? But that's how it seems to this reader.) Toddcs (talk) 08:35, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

After reading this I went to the referenced website to see if they had any more information. The exact link isn't there anymore (they seem to have moved the history page which is where the link pointed to). After going through all the pages of the very small site I couldn't find any reference to a record. In fact the site mentions, "[h]owever, recent geology research indicates the animals died in a series of events spread across many.". Across many years? I don't know, that's where they left it off. They do describe three distinct events though. Here's a link if anyone else wants to check: http://www.wacomammoth.org/story.html. The Waco site sounds like an interesting find but doesn't support a record. I'm going to be out of town for a couple of days so can't make a change now but this is definitely something that will need a better reference or be removed. Wolfhound668 (talk) 13:01, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Why not look up archive.org? --Florian Blaschke (talk) 09:17, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Well, I see that older versions of the page did in fact make this claim and they had it as their tag line at that point as well but that seems to have been removed some time after 3/10/2009 (the last archive version if I'm using wayback correctly). Without knowing why it was removed I won't be making any changes myself. Wolfhound668 (talk) 13:26, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Purpose of the giant spiralled tusks???

What is the generally accepted purpose of the giant spiralled tusks??? Or is there no known purpose? Thanks in advance to anybody that knows (also, if you could put it in the article). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.94.102 (talk) 20:22, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Other petroglyphs have been found

The following sentence appears to be factually incorrect:

   Petroglyphs in the Colorado plateau are the only known Ice Age depictions 
   of Columbian mammoths, if they are not mastodons instead."

Such petroglyphs have been found in Utah, according to this page:

 http://www.donsmaps.com/utahmammoths.html

which appears to be authoritative.

I won't edit the text because I'm certainly no expert. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SDLarsen (talk • contribs) SDLarsen (talk) 19:51, 29 June 2013 (UTC)