Principia's Mammoth Dig - Progress

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.

This is an update of our progress on the Mammoth Project at Principia College. I send this out at the end of each term of progress (2-3 times a year). If you would rather not be on the list to receive The Mammoth News, please email me and I will be happy to remove your name, and I won't be offended. If you know of others who would like to be added, please send me their email address. Thanks. Janis Treworgy

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