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
Relative clause on the forms of Latin relative pronouns, "see" the section on relative pronouns in the article on Latin declension. Ancient Greek follows the same rule as Latin. The Ancient Greek relative pronoun ὅς, ἥ, ὅ ("hós, hḗ, hó") is unrelated to the Latin word, since it derives from Proto-Indo-European : in Proto-Greek, "y" before a vowel usually changed to "h" (debuccalization). Cognates include Sanskrit "yas, yā, yad" (where "o" changed to short "a"). The Greek definite article ὁ, ἡ, τό ("ho, hē, tó") has a different origin, since it is related to Sanskrit "sa, sā" and Latin "is-tud". Information that