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* The [[Ebu Gogo]] myths of the people of [[Flores]] have been hypothesised to represent ''[[Homo floresiensis]]'', which perhaps became extinct around 10,000 BCE (although the Flores Islanders hold that the Ebu Gogo remained alive 400 years ago).<ref>Gregory Forth (2005), "Hominids, hairy hominoids and the science of humanity", ''Anthropology Today'' '''21''' no. 3, 13–17.</ref>
* The [[Ebu Gogo]] myths of the people of [[Flores]] have been hypothesised to represent ''[[Homo floresiensis]]'', which perhaps became extinct around 10,000 BCE (although the Flores Islanders hold that the Ebu Gogo remained alive 400 years ago).<ref>Gregory Forth (2005), "Hominids, hairy hominoids and the science of humanity", ''Anthropology Today'' '''21''' no. 3, 13–17.</ref>
* An [[Inuit]] [[string figure]] representing a large creature is identified with the extinct [[woolly mammoth]]<ref>[[T. T. Paterson]] (1949), "Eskimo String Figures and Their Origin", ''Acta Arctica'' 3:1-98.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Bruemmer |first=Fred |authorlink=Fred Bruemmer |date=1993 |title=Arctic memories: living with the Inuit |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9WR1AAAAMAAJ |location= |publisher=Key Porter Books |page=37 |isbn=1550134612 |access-date=2015-06-24}}</ref>
* An [[Inuit]] [[string figure]] representing a large creature is identified with the extinct [[woolly mammoth]]<ref>[[T. T. Paterson]] (1949), "Eskimo String Figures and Their Origin", ''Acta Arctica'' 3:1-98.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Bruemmer |first=Fred |authorlink=Fred Bruemmer |date=1993 |title=Arctic memories: living with the Inuit |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9WR1AAAAMAAJ |location= |publisher=Key Porter Books |page=37 |isbn=1550134612 |access-date=2015-06-24}}</ref>
* Legends from dozens of Native American tribes have been interpreted by some as indicative of [[Woolly Mammoth]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Strong |first=W. D. |year=1934 |month= |title=North American Indian Traditions Suggesting a Knowledge of the Mammoth |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=81–88 |doi=10.1525/aa.1934.36.1.02a00060 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Scott |first=William Berryman |date=Jan–June 1887 |title=American Elephant Myths |journal=Scribner’s Magazine |volume=1 |issue= |pages=474–476 |publisher=C. Scribner’s Sons |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/scribnersmag01editmiss |accessdate=October 2008}}</ref><ref>Records of the Past Exploration Society, “Pre-Indian Inhabitants of North America, Part II, Man and the Elephant and Mastodon”, Records of the Past, (Washington D.C.: [[Records of the Past Exploration Society]], 1907), 164, retrieved online October 2008 at books.google.com/books?id=7_HzBYM-7X4C</ref><ref>{{cite journal | jstor=540573 | pages=293–304 | last1=Lankford | first1=G. E. | title=Pleistocene Animals in Folk Memory | volume=93 | issue=369 | journal=[[The Journal of American Folklore]] | year=1980 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Fossil Legends of the First Americans |last=Mayor |first=Adrienne |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2005 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton |page=97 |url= |isbn=0-691-11345-9}}</ref> One example is from the [[Kaska]] tribe from northern [[British Columbia]]; in 1917 an ethnologist recorded their tradition of: “A very large kind of animal which roamed the country a long time ago. It corresponded somewhat to white men's pictures of elephants. It was of huge size, in build like an elephant, had tusks, and was hairy. These animals were seen not so very long ago, it is said, generally singly, but none have been seen now for several generations. Indians come across their bones occasionally. The narrator said he and some others, a few years ago, came on a shoulder-blade... as wide as a table (about three feet).” However, the animal in this story was predatory and carnivorous, suggesting the memory of the proboscideans had become conflated with that of other megafauna, such as bears and [[Saber-toothed cat|sabertooths]].<ref>{{cite journal | jstor = 534495 | pages = 427–473 [450–451] | last1 = Teit | first1 = J. A. | title = Kaska tales | volume = 30 | issue = 118 | journal = [[The Journal of American Folklore]] | year = 1917 |url=https://archive.org/stream/kaskatales00teituoft#page/n1/mode/2up | accessdate=1 April 2011 }}</ref><ref>Examples of British Columbia Folklore: [http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Bladderheadboy.htm Bladder-Head Boy (A Kaska Woolly-Mammoth Legend)], (The British Columbia Folklore Society, 2003).</ref>
* Legends from dozens of Native American tribes have been interpreted by some as indicative of [[Woolly Mammoth]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Strong |first=W. D. |year=1934 |month= |title=North American Indian Traditions Suggesting a Knowledge of the Mammoth |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=81–88 |doi=10.1525/aa.1934.36.1.02a00060 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Scott |first=William Berryman |date=Jan–June 1887 |title=American Elephant Myths |journal=Scribner’s Magazine |volume=1 |issue= |pages=474–476 |publisher=C. Scribner’s Sons |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/scribnersmag01editmiss |accessdate=October 2008}}</ref><ref>Records of the Past Exploration Society, “Pre-Indian Inhabitants of North America, Part II, Man and the Elephant and Mastodon”, Records of the Past, (Washington D.C.: [[Records of the Past Exploration Society]], 1907), 164, retrieved online October 2008 at books.google.com/books?id=7_HzBYM-7X4C</ref><ref>{{cite journal | jstor=540573 | pages=293–304 | last1=Lankford | first1=G. E. | title=Pleistocene Animals in Folk Memory | volume=93 | issue=369 | journal=[[The Journal of American Folklore]] | year=1980 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Fossil Legends of the First Americans |last=Mayor |first=Adrienne |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2005 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton |page=97 |url= |isbn=0-691-11345-9}}</ref> One example is from the [[Kaska]] tribe from northern [[British Columbia]]; in 1917 an ethnologist recorded their tradition of: “A very large kind of animal which roamed the country a long time ago. It corresponded somewhat to white men's pictures of elephants. It was of huge size, in build like an elephant, had tusks, and was hairy. These animals were seen not so very long ago, it is said, generally singly, but none have been seen now for several generations. Indians come across their bones occasionally. The narrator said he and some others, a few years ago, came on a shoulder-blade... as wide as a table (about three feet).” However, the animal in this story was predatory and carnivorous, suggesting the memory of the proboscideans had become conflated with that of other megafauna, such as bears and [[Saber-toothed cat|sabertooths]].<ref>{{cite journal | jstor = 534495 | pages = 427–473 [450–451] | last1 = Teit | first1 = J. A. | title = Kaska tales | volume = 30 | issue = 118 | journal = [[The Journal of American Folklore]] | year = 1917 |url=https://archive.org/stream/kaskatales00teituoft#page/n1/mode/2up | accessdate=1 April 2011 }}</ref><ref>Examples of British Columbia Folklore: [http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Bladderheadboy.htm Bladder-Head Boy (A Kaska Woolly-Mammoth Legend)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114101018/http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Bladderheadboy.htm |date=2012-01-14 }}, (The British Columbia Folklore Society, 2003).</ref>
Even more so than is ordinary for the study of [[history]], the plausible historical connections listed above could be inaccurate due to the difficulty of piecing together [[prehistoric]] or [[preliterate]] fragments of evidence into a meaningful understanding. They must rely on more [[speculation]] to fill in evidence gaps than would be acceptable in another context that provided more rigorous [[Verification and validation|verifiability]] of the records available.{{cn|date=December 2016}}
Even more so than is ordinary for the study of [[history]], the plausible historical connections listed above could be inaccurate due to the difficulty of piecing together [[prehistoric]] or [[preliterate]] fragments of evidence into a meaningful understanding. They must rely on more [[speculation]] to fill in evidence gaps than would be acceptable in another context that provided more rigorous [[Verification and validation|verifiability]] of the records available.{{cn|date=December 2016}}


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Folk memory is a term sometimes used to describe stories,

etymologies
for the names of local places.

Purported folk memories

Events

A model of the Haast's eagle attacking a moa with its large talons. The Haast's eagle is believed to be the subject of many Māori legends

Species

Even more so than is ordinary for the study of

preliterate fragments of evidence into a meaningful understanding. They must rely on more speculation to fill in evidence gaps than would be acceptable in another context that provided more rigorous verifiability of the records available.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ISBN 0-9598588-4-9. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help
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  2. ISBN 0-85924-171-8
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  3. ^ Ruth S. Ludwin, Robert Dennis, Deborah Carver, Alan D. McMillan, Robert Losey, John Clague, Chris Jonientz-Trisler, Janine Bowechop, Jacilee Wray and Karen James, "Dating the 1700 Cascadia Earthquake: Great Coastal Earthquakes in Native Stories" Archived 2015-07-24 at the Wayback Machine. Seismological Research Letters (Volume 76, Number 2), March/April 2005.
  4. ^ Lennart Meri (1976). Hõbevalge (Silverwhite). Tallinn, Estonia: Eesti Raamat.
  5. ^ W.B. Ryan and W.C. Pitman (1998), Noah's Flood: The new scientific discoveries about the event that changed history
  6. ^ C. Aybes, and D.W. Yalden(2008)Place-name evidence for the former distribution and status of Wolves and Beavers in Britain. Mammal Review 25(4):201-226.
  7. ^ Rodgers, Paul (14 September 2009). "Maori legend of man-eating bird is true". The Independent. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
  8. ^ Miskelly, C. M. (1987). "The identity of the hakawai" (PDF). Notornis. 34 (2): 95–116.
  9. ^ Robert Holden(2001) p.90
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    ISBN 0-909674-36-1
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  11. ^ "Noongar story reveals 'dragon'". perthnow.com.au.
  12. ^ http://www.joondalup.wa.gov.au/Files/Joondalup_Mooro_Boodjar_Brochure.pdf
  13. ^ Gregory Forth (2005), "Hominids, hairy hominoids and the science of humanity", Anthropology Today 21 no. 3, 13–17.
  14. ^ T. T. Paterson (1949), "Eskimo String Figures and Their Origin", Acta Arctica 3:1-98.
  15. ISBN 1550134612
    . Retrieved 2015-06-24.
  16. doi:10.1525/aa.1934.36.1.02a00060. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help
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  17. ^ Scott, William Berryman (Jan–June 1887). "American Elephant Myths". Scribner’s Magazine. 1. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons: 474–476. Retrieved October 2008. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  18. ^ Records of the Past Exploration Society, “Pre-Indian Inhabitants of North America, Part II, Man and the Elephant and Mastodon”, Records of the Past, (Washington D.C.: Records of the Past Exploration Society, 1907), 164, retrieved online October 2008 at books.google.com/books?id=7_HzBYM-7X4C
  19. JSTOR 540573
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  20. ISBN 0-691-11345-9. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help
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  21. JSTOR 534495
    . Retrieved 1 April 2011.
  22. ^ Examples of British Columbia Folklore: Bladder-Head Boy (A Kaska Woolly-Mammoth Legend) Archived 2012-01-14 at the Wayback Machine, (The British Columbia Folklore Society, 2003).

Further reading

  • Guy Beiner, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory, University of Wisconsin Press (2007)
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