Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Wolly Mammoth Entrepreneurs

In a LA Times piece headlined Woolly mammoths resurfacing in Siberia, we learn the following.

Hand-to-mouth reindeer herders on Russia’s desolate tundra have coexisted with the traces of mammoths for generations. Romanenko claims that there are cases of long-frozen mammoth meat being thawed and cooked, or fed to the dogs.

Now entire villages are surviving on the trade in mammoth bones. And a new verb has entered the vernacular: mamontit, or “to mammoth”—meaning, to go out in search of bones.

Good for them, and their sense of self reliance, I say.  Mamontit!

Posted by John Venlet on 03/02 at 05:25 PM
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