Elephants in ancient China Elephants in ancient China The existence of elephants in ancient China is attested both by archaeological evidence and by depictions in Chinese artwork. Long thought to belong to an extinct subspecies of Asian elephants, named "Elephas maximus rubridens", they lived in Central and Southern China before the 14th century BC. They once occurred as far north as Anyang, Henan in northern China. The elephant is mentioned in the earliest received texts, including the "Shijing", "Liji", and "Zuozhuan." The oracle bone script and bronzeware script glyphs for elephant are pictographic depictions of an animal with a long trunk. Their modern descendant
Mastodon (album) Also included are: Mastodon (album) Mastodon is the only box set released by the American heavy metal band of the same name. It features all of their material released by Relapse Records plus "Blood Mountain" which was originally released on Reprise Records. The box set was limited to 1100 copies and all records were pressed on 180 gram vinyl. The box set was released by Relapse records with no input from the band. The box set contains the following audio: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Unreleased before this box set.<br> <nowiki>**</nowiki>"Leviathan" also includes the band's cover versions of Thin Lizzy's "Emerald", Melvins "The Bit"