#paleotology
Although the first two pictures look like a mammoth, it’s actually a mastodont (Mammut americanum) of the Late Pleistocene (12,000 years ago). But how do the two differ? Mastodonts had rounded teeth, ate tree leaves, and had a pair of smaller tusks alongside their larger ones. Mammoths have one tusk set, and preferred grass and other plants low to to ground.
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Prehistoric large cup and ring petroglyph at ‘Laxe das Rodas’, Galicia, Spain.
Cup and ring marks or cup marks are a form of prehistoric art found mainly in Atlantic and Mediterranean Europe. They consist of a concave depression, no more than a few centimetres across, pecked into a rock surface and often surrounded by concentric circles also etched into the stone. Sometimes a linear channel called a gutter leads out from the middle. The decoration occurs as a petroglyph on natural boulders and outcrops and also as an element of megalithic art on purposely worked megaliths, and on some stone circles and passage graves.-wikipedia.com
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