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
Call of the Mastodon On the documentary of the making of "Crack the Skye", the band stated that "Call of the Mastodon" is their FIRST studio album, (Brent lists it first before Remission, Leviathan, Blood Mountain). He doesn't mention anything about it being their third album. He just says "Crack The Skye" is their fifth album *IF* you count "Call of The Mastodon" as their first. This sentiment was also echoed by Bill Kelliher when he appeared on Loudwire's 'Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction'. A live version of "Where Strides the Behemoth" is featured as a bonus track on the Japanese release of the album,