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The revelation that humans and mega-animals likely overlapped is part of the continuing work at a 12,500-year-old camp by the Farmington River. Discovered early in 2019 during reconstruction of the Old Farms Road Bridge near Route 10, the site is the focus of a five-part series of free presentations.
Did Woolly Mammoths And Humans Walk Around New England Together? Apparently, Yes
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BOSTON (CBS) – An accidental discovery is changing the timeline on woolly mammoth, while helping to answer the question did woolly mammoths and humans walk around New England together?
Nathaniel Kitchel is a post doctoral fellow in Dartmouth College’s anthropology department. He was visiting the Hood Museum of Art on campus to examine some Native American artifacts that were in storage.
It was a chance discovery.
“I bent down and looked at the tag and Mt Holly Mammoth… Mt. Holly Vermont,” Kitchel says, referring the specimen he saw. “On the same shelf, in the same New England section, I noticed a fairly large bone, a fossil bone, especially one that old, has a distinctive look to it.”
Nathaniel Kitchel, the Robert A. 1925 and Catherine L. McKennan Postdoctoral Fellow “
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Researchers trace the age of a Mount Holly mammoth rib fragment from Mount Holly, Vt.
Replica of a woolly mammoth (
Mammuthus primigenius) in the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The display is from 1979 and the fur is muskox hair. (Image by Flying Puffin, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license – cropped from original)
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Woolly mammoths may have walked the landscape at the same time as the earliest humans in what is now New England, according to a Dartmouth study published in Boreas. Through the radiocarbon dating of a rib fragment from the Mount Holly mammoth from Mount Holly, Vt., the researchers learned that this mammoth existed some 12,800 years ago. The humans in the Northeast are thought to have arrived around the same time.
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