Re: Clan of the Cave Bear
[Re: white17]
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09/14/20 04:20 PM
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coonlove
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Wait until they find one of Fred Bear's arrows in it......................
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Re: Clan of the Cave Bear
[Re: white17]
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09/14/20 04:34 PM
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danny clifton
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wonder if they can clone one now
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Clan of the Cave Bear
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09/14/20 07:43 PM
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Dillrod
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Big sucker! I have all the CAVE BEAR books. X2 . Great author.
"Some Domestication Required "
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Re: Clan of the Cave Bear
[Re: white17]
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09/14/20 08:49 PM
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Gulo
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White, Sharon, et al. -
Some time ago, I'm guessing about 1991 or 1992, I'm doing summer gyrfalcon/peregrine falcon surveys (looking for nests) in some interior Alaska karst from my SuperCub. I notice a black hole in the top of a ridge (limestone) and I circle several times, all the while scratching my balding pate. About 3 miles away, I find another ridge with a relatively flat spot on it, which looks long enough to settle the 'Cub into. I make several passes, each time getting a bit lower and slower. I finally pull full flaps and set the thing down. Turns out it was plenty of room, although I remember heating up the brakes a bit to get stopped. I spent about 4 hours that summer afternoon walking to that black hole in the top of the ridge. It was indeed a sink-hole. I dropped several rocks into the abyss, listening to them bounce and careen off the sides to the bottom of the nearly-bottomless pit. It was precisely on the top of the ridge, thus had a well-worn caribou/bear trail wending its way around the 6-8-ft opening. Cool, me-thinks! I wondered how many caribou, grizzlies, wolverine, etc., had fallen into that pitfall trap over the past 10,000 years. Always wanted to get back there with climbing gear and go exploring. Alas, I never did. Instead, I told a University of Alaska-Fairbanks archaeologist about the place; even showed him on a map precisely where it was. Couple years later, I was in Fairbanks showing him various Pleistocene bones I'd picked up on various Kuskokwim or Yukon river bars, and he told me a story about him and two grad students taking a helicopter into that "secret" place, along with good headlamps, hardhats, and lots of rope. Then he brought out a box. In the box was, you guessed it, a complete skull of a cave bear. He said there were dozens, maybe hundreds, of caribou carcasses, along with a wide variety of other bones, most probably from 200 to 20,000 years ago. He said they were going to return and fully catalog this "bonanza", but thus far hadn't found any camels, superbison, sabre-toothed cats, or mega-moose. So, to end the story, why would anyone be so stupid as to tell someone else about something like that?
It will be interesting to follow that story of the Rooski cave bear and figure out if it really is a cave bear, a short-faced bear, or a modern brown bear. Reminds me of a book, "Alaskan-Yukon Trophies Won and Lost" (Orville Young, 1947).
Jack
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Re: Clan of the Cave Bear
[Re: white17]
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09/15/20 01:25 AM
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James
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Cool thread, Ken.
Those Clan of the Cave Bear books are readable, if you ignore the blatant feminism and misinformation.
We now know, for instance, that homo sapiens sapiens could and did interbreed with Neanderthals. The author of the Cave Bear series guessed wrong on a crucial point in her plot.
Jim
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Re: Clan of the Cave Bear
[Re: white17]
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09/15/20 07:15 AM
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The Clan of the Cave Bear series of books are works of fiction, not documentaries.
Eh...wot?
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