Says it's a tooth. Looks like bacon strips.
Tusk tusk
Says it's a tooth. Looks like bacon strips.
Tusk tusk
Break out the Helen Thomas pics....
The last thing one wants to do when encountering such a find is contact any government mechanism.
At least until you are done and gone from the site.
No one knows about that site to this day, except me and Bo.
We took several broken points and a wood hook.
It was a trash heap of oyster shells 6 foot deep covering a hundred square yards. It was three feet down, so we considered it colonial era.
The Mayor of Castroville was quoted as saying "You bet! Once we discover a mammoth around here, it REMAINS discovered!"
“The bones of a juvenile Ice Age Columbian mammoth..”
So how do they know what country he was from? Did they find drugs too?
How long before it is undiscovered?
“...about 10,000 years ago, Hylkema said, about the time the first humans began populating the continent.”
There is abundant evidence that humans had been populating the continent long before 10,000 years ago. The Cactus Hill site in Virginia might be twice as old as Clovis. Generally accepted theories today regarding the peopling of North America is where geology was in the 1950s - before the commonly accepted concepts of plate tectonics and continental drift.
“Mammoth remains discovered near Castroville”
Michael Moore’s ancestral home?