Mammoth bones recovered from Michigan farm - Killed by Ice Age Hunters?

[T-Bob]

University of Michigan paleontologists conducted a second excavation this week at the Chelsea-area farm where the skull, tusks and dozens of intact bones of an ice age mammoth were pulled from the ground in late 2015.

A U-M news video of the skull and two attached tusks being hoisted from the muddy excavation pit with a backhoe on Oct. 1, 2015, has been viewed more than 875,000 times on YouTube.

Read the rest of the story here: More mammoth bones recovered from Michigan farm where skull, tusks and dozens of intact bones of an ice age mammoth were found

 

[Armand]

University of Michigan paleontologists conducted a second excavation this week at the Chelsea-area farm where the skull, tusks and dozens of intact bones of an ice age mammoth were pulled from the ground in late 2015.

A U-M news video of the skull and two attached tusks being hoisted from the muddy excavation pit with a backhoe on Oct. 1, 2015, has been viewed more than 875,000 times on YouTube.

Read the rest of the story here: More mammoth bones recovered from Michigan farm where skull, tusks and dozens of intact bones of an ice age mammoth were found

interesting

 

[7Critter]

So, they are dating humans to 15, 000 years ago at the Michigan site. Pre-Clovis people.

 

[T-Bob]

So, they are dating humans to 15, 000 years ago at the Michigan site. Pre-Clovis people.

Definitely pre-Clovis by about 1,700 years.

 

[Lynne]

This is an amazing discovery. It’s wonderous to think about a 9 ton elephant running around Michigan once upon a time.