Mammoth graveyard may someday be open to public

Star-Telegram ^ | 9-20-07 | R.A. DYER

[sevenbak]

Zats whatz zay zay.

[DavemeisterP]

The two kids that found it weren’t amateur fossil hunters, that’s BULL___T. Two kids, a boy and a girl, were exploring the woods when momma wasn’t watching and stumbled across bones sticking out of the back. If I remember right they were younger than me, and I was in 6th grade. I was in a group called the ‘Junior Naturalist Club’ at Baylor when a certain unnamed archaeologist came down to the basement where we were cleaning points from the Horn Rock Shelter and asked us if we wanted to go explore the woods to look for some bones. It sounded better than pruning up my hands, so why not? There were 7 or 8 of us, I think. One thing not mentioned in the paper was the alligator teeth we found that day, too. Also found one crude, worked, flint knife of some sort. It was kinda mixed in with the bones, but a little upstream.
Another thing, there are 2 or 3 separate sites stacked on each other. One is deep down next to the lowest observation deck. Back when it was a ravine, there was a deep cut hole that dropped off there and bones were sticking out of near the bottom. Don’t know if those have ever been dug yet. They had been covered over by silt during a flood Waco had several years ago, and as of my last visit there, they were still several feet beneath the level of the current level of the creek.
Mammoth bones are found all throughout the area of that site in gravel pits, and those gravel pits get shut down if anyone finds out they found anything. It’s just a layer of gravel that runs up and down the Brazos River. Bones are all in it. Worked flint sometimes too.

[DavemeisterP]

Something else, I found a 68 million year old turtle in a gravel pit, not 2 miles from there.

The whole area also used to be beachfront property a long, long time ago. There are dinosaur footprints all up the Brazos and Puluxy Rivers north of Waco, too.

[TruthConquers]

WOW. Thanks for the extra insight. Never can trust those journalists to get it right.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

I wasn’t around then, so I can’t give a precise date. The geological record seems to indicate about 10,000 or so years ago.

Thank you.

Interestingly, this roughly corresponds to the same period that Dr. Robert Schoch theorized that a great flood occurred in Egypt. (See: Sphix Studies)

[PAR35]

Evidence from the Black Sea does point to a slightly more recent date - say 7600 years ago.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Evidence from the Black Sea does point to a slightly more recent date - say 7600 years ago.

Geologic evidence?

If so, then there's a discrepancy of 1400 or so years.

And according to sevenbak's interpretation, which somewhat agrees with what I've heard over the years, the great flood occurred 2500-2300 B.C.

So, it's better to say that we don't really know when the flood of Noah occurred, isn't it?

[VOA]

bump

[DavemeisterP]

Every time I read anything written about the mammoths, journalists get something wrong in the story. I’ve read that the two kids were adults, amatuer fossilhunters...ROFL, teenagers, two boys, two girls, Baylor University, a landowner, and a few other variances of all of those. I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard it told right once. I have even heard officials from Baylor, on the news, explaining the story and getting it wrong. I’m beginning to wonder if anyone even remembers or cares. There was one girl that was there and might be on this forum. Last I heard, I think she was a Marine Biologist in Galveston, TX. I believe her name was Selina? I know her last name, but I won’t post it. If you’re out there, speak up, I know you have quite a few interesting stories to tell as well.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!