“A Memoir of Mammoths and Mastodons” – A complete prehistory of the elephants, which came in an astonishing array of forms in their tens of millions of years on Earth – small and immense, woolly and less so, with all sorts of different tusks, and more besides! Plus the remarkably bizarre history of human understanding of mammoths and their relatives; from the idea that they were giant moles, through mammoth-meat banquets, to Thomas Jefferson’s search for living woolly elephants!

Opening entertainment by Allison Witham!

“A Memoir of Mammoths and Mastodons” – A complete prehistory of the elephants, which came in an astonishing array of forms in their tens of millions of years on Earth – small and immense, woolly and less so, with all sorts of different tusks, and more besides! Plus the remarkably bizarre history of human understanding of mammoths and their relatives; from the idea that they were giant moles, through mammoth-meat banquets, to Thomas Jefferson’s search for living woolly elephants!