The Next Dark Age

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I forget where I read it, but there was some American indian lore of an animal that sounded a lot like a Mastodon.

The Natchez Indians, in Louis L'Amour's "Jubal".

No reason to not believe that wooly mammoths or mastodons didn't roam round the lower Mississippi River, and that the local Indians of the 1700s (time period of the book, and the waning days of the last ice age) didn't see them. Later, when Jubal finally reached the Rockies he saw such an animal.

 

[popper]

Then there is Pit Pat hollow.
Part of 'society' collects knowledge over time. If that portion of society is wiped out (natural or war) knowledge had to be re-accumulated. That period we refer to as a dark age. If we loose electricity or gas, those with horses will do well, we just have to re-build. Not really a dark age. Edison developed the lightbulb, if a bulb factory is destroyed, we rebuild it (if we have the resources).

 

[Bret4207]

The Natchez Indians, in Louis L'Amour's "Jubal".

No reason to not believe that wooly mammoths or mastodons didn't roam round the lower Mississippi River, and that the local Indians of the 1700s (time period of the book, and the waning days of the last ice age) didn't see them. Later, when Jubal finally reached the Rockies he saw such an animal.

Yeah, it was in there too. Thanks for the reminder! IIRC I read the article in something like National Geographic or Natural History, maybe even Readers Digest back in the early 80's when I was in the Corps. The Chaplins library was filled with wholesome stuff like that to read while you were stuck in a tent in January in Korea!