Editing Curelom and cumom (section)

==Critical view of the mammoth theory==
Mainstream [[paleontology|paleontologists]] believe that mastodons and mammoths became extinct by [[4000 BC]]. This suggests that a beast of burden in the Book of Mormon time period most likely would not have been a mammoth, although many Latter-day Saints still persist in displaying cureloms as mammoths in literature and media.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cureloms.com/Cureloms.pdf}}</ref>

Recent studies have found that a small population of mammoths existed until approximately 1650 BC. These survivors were an isolated arctic population discovered on the remote [[Wrangel Island]] in the [[Arctic Ocean]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://io9.com/5896262/the-last-mammoths-died-out-just-3600-years-agobut-they-should-have-survived|title=The last mammoths died out just 3600 years ago...but they should have survived|date=25 March 2012 }}</ref> This is the time period wherein Jaredites would have lived, but the geography and climate are far from matching the lands proposed by Book of Mormon scholars and apologists.