{*filter*}girl,
        Some time ago I met a Peruvian archaeologist, Pino Turola, who
lives in Miami. He had a basalt statue of a serape clad peon leaning
against a wall. As you turned the statue, the wall became a body with
giant fee and as it turned more the huge flapping ears, trunk and tusks
of an elephant like animal came into view. Pino swears he took it out of
a Peruvian tomb, legally? If so, it means that man and the hairless
mastodon? were contemporaries in S America. Not quite as good as your
tusk in teeth but interesting nontheless. My impression is that we
believe that man and the mammoth or mastodon co-existed in the Northern
Hemisphere. How about S of the equator?

Ray McAllister, Prof (Emeritus) Ocean Eng., FAU, Boca Raton, FL 33064
Diving Dinosaur, Geologist/Oceanographer/Ocean Engineer, 44 years SCUBA