Hello,
I've won a contract to do work in the Beringia Center museum at Whitehorse. I've had a chance to look around and ask the resident paleontologist, Tyler, all kinds of questions.
For those of you who have read my first book of short stories, 'Talking at the Woodpile' you will remember the mammoth that Wilfred and William dug up on a Bonanza Creek gold claim. This here is the mammoth I wrote about. The mammoth is actually from a dig in Wisconsin and it is a plaster cast not the actual bones.
Tyler explained that when the mammoth was dug up flints were discovered scattered amongst the bones. The second picture shows a cut mark, on the right front leg, running from eleven o'clock to five o'clock that was made during butchering.
It's all very fascinating and ancient.
In the story 'Frozen in Time' I've mentioned that if you look closely you can see a mark on the ribs where, 10,000 years ago, a man killed the mammoth with a spear. Read the story you will like it. The spear part is fiction but maybe it is not that far from the truth.
Cheers
David
Note, That nitrogen nose freeze thing, I'm going back to the doctor. I bought a wart freezing kit tested it on my arm and I will not be doing it myself, no way!
I've won a contract to do work in the Beringia Center museum at Whitehorse. I've had a chance to look around and ask the resident paleontologist, Tyler, all kinds of questions.
For those of you who have read my first book of short stories, 'Talking at the Woodpile' you will remember the mammoth that Wilfred and William dug up on a Bonanza Creek gold claim. This here is the mammoth I wrote about. The mammoth is actually from a dig in Wisconsin and it is a plaster cast not the actual bones.
Tyler explained that when the mammoth was dug up flints were discovered scattered amongst the bones. The second picture shows a cut mark, on the right front leg, running from eleven o'clock to five o'clock that was made during butchering.
It's all very fascinating and ancient.
In the story 'Frozen in Time' I've mentioned that if you look closely you can see a mark on the ribs where, 10,000 years ago, a man killed the mammoth with a spear. Read the story you will like it. The spear part is fiction but maybe it is not that far from the truth.
Cheers
David
Note, That nitrogen nose freeze thing, I'm going back to the doctor. I bought a wart freezing kit tested it on my arm and I will not be doing it myself, no way!