David Lintz, a veteran employee of the old Strecker Museum at Baylor University, shows Teen Leadership Waco members the Waco Mammoth Site. Lintz initiated the first archaeological dig at the site in 1978.
Posted on 10/26/2005 6:11:43 PM PDT by ValerieUSA
65 mammoths ping
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Quite a mudslide. Wonder what caused it?
http://www.centerfirstamericans.com/mt.html?a=132
Waco Site Reveals 21 Mammoths
Died Together 28,000 Years Ago - p. 16
by Don Alan Hall
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The mammoths presumably died in flood and bank cave-in as the result of herd instinct as individuals followed the matriarch and attempted to rescue floundering juveniles (Mammoth Trumpet 4:3 "The Waco Mammoth Site"). There is no indication of human interaction with the bones. "Not even a scratch mark," Smith said in a recent telephone interview. Most of the bones remained exactly where the mammoths died. "They're articulated extremely well," Smith added. There are not even any gnaw marks indicating scavenging by predators. "It is absolutely the cleanest site I ever saw." Early in the investigation of the site, Gary Haynes, University of Nevada taphonomist, said the mammoths had been covered very rapidly and a decade of continuing research has revealed no evidence to the contrary.
Among the first discoveries at Waco was an adult female with its 6-foot-long tusks beneath the chest and belly of a baby animal. Presumably she had been trying to save it before both became trapped in water and mud. The other mammoths died in close proximity.
Smith says that animals 17 and 18, initially located in 1992, presented the project's greatest challenge. These were found when investigators were excavating to get a north-south profile of the site. They lay immediately north of where that other female and baby had been removed. The concentration of mammoth bones proved to be those of a large bull, the first uncovered at the site, and a fairly large juvenile. It was another case of an adult evidently attempting to rescue a young mammoth in trouble.
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Oops, 24 mammoths from 65,000 years ago, not 65 mammoths.
Here's a link to more info
http://www3.baylor.edu/Museum_Studies/mammoth.htm
The Waco Tribune article says they were buried 65,000 years ago. Your article says it was 28,000 yrs ago, as does the link I just posted above.
http://www.washtimes.com/culture/20040104-105441-2052r.htm
Found this,too..I want to visit the Mayborn Museum..
http://www.countryworldnews.com/Editorial/CTX/2005/ct0421museum.htm
So does the WaPo link I posted..
"The city of Waco and Baylor University want to preserve the resting ground of a herd of prehistoric mammoths thought to have died in a mudslide about 28,000 years ago."
and here ...
http://hutchison.senate.gov/cchistoric.htm
It's always good to cross-reference :)
Good find..I have been googling like crazy..
I remember when I first moved back to Texas and saw this in the news.. how interesting I found it..I recalled my childhood viewing of dinosaur tracks in a limestone bed of a creek or river during summer camp around Glen Rose.
Thank you for posting this article..It was nice to take a break from politics!
I'll see those 24, and raise 28 more. (The 104th tusks were found this season, making at least 52 mammoths.)
http://www.mammothsite.com/
Sinkhole trump(et)s landslide.
The watering hole, active for about 350-700 years, slowly filled with layers of drying silt, sediments, and dying mammoths. The mud, which had aided in trapping the mammoths, now entombed and preserved the mammoth remains.
I've been to that river at Glen Rose, too. It's cool to put your feet right into a dinosaur footprint in rock under the water's surface.
http://paleo.cc/paluxy/dvsp.htm
Dinosaur Valley State Park
Glen Rose, Texas
DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS!
I have been to this site. Its huge.
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