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It sounds like they think that the mammoths were protecting their calves from a flood, but what were the saber tooth cat and a camel doing there with them?

And there might be more mammoths there as well? How big of a flood was that?

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.