Principia's
Mammoth Dig - Progress
This is an update of our progress on the Mammoth Project at Principia College. I send this out at the
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The Mammoth News
Volume 17
Summer 2008
News Flash! St. Louis Post-Dispatch covers mammoth:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/5044225A9CEBCC8C86
25749900179A10?OpenDocument
http://www.stltoday.com/news/illinois-news
Lab Work
This summer we had adults in Principia’s Summer Session work in the lab on a cluster of ribs
that had been removed from the excavation site by a previous Summer Session class in
2003. We removed much of the matrix from the underside and found several ribs and a more
massive bone that we could not identify in the field. We also began work on another bone
that we could not identify in the field; this was the first bone that we removed from the pit in
the summer of 2002.
Outreach
VISITORS
During Summer Session I gave a tour of the lab and skull block to about 60 people.
NEWSPAPER COVERAGE
Terry Hillig of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch came to see our progress and interview me for
another article. He also interviewed Dr. Jeff Saunders by telephone. Terry’s first article was
printed in January 2005 and picked up by papers across the country.
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