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Subject: Re: Frozen male mammoth found in Siberia
From: GeE777@.......
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:57:22 EDT


In a message dated 9/12/99 6:27:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
meredithlamb@.............. writes:

> Hey George.....would sure like to hear about that and/or
>  any particular circumstance that stands in your memory.
>  Where, who, etc.  Real interesting circumstance I would
>  think.

The years I was up on the North Slope, North of the Brooks Range was 1950 and 
1951.  Once a short time after that.  Every few weeks someone on the crew 
would come across a partially frozen and buried carcass of a mammoth.  The 
tooth I found was in a dry wash, in an area of many rounded stones about the 
size of the tooth.  It was on the west side of the Naval Petroleum Rreserve 

There was a Bison found further south by gold miners that was estimated to be 
35,000 years old and claw marks indicate it was killed by a lion. (see 
Guthrie, Dale and Guthrie, Mary Lee  "Death on the steepe: the case of the 
frozen bison" New Scientist No. 1727, 28 July 1990 p. 47-51)

George Erich

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