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Mastodon Bone with Artifacts in California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Don E. Crabtree*
Affiliation:
Museum of Paleontology, University of California

Extract

The complete lower jaw of a Mastodon was found a number of years ago in “Pleistocene” gravels several miles from Bitterwater, San Benito County, California. When this locality was visited a few weeks ago by a field party from the Museum of Paleontology, University of California, a confusing “association” of Proboscidean bones and recent utensils was observed. Near the top of a cross-bedded deposit of gravel lay the distal end of an elephant limb bone (see Figure 5). Immediately below was found an Indian stone mortar, and again below the latter occurred a cast iron Dutch oven. This association was obviously the result of re-working of these evidently non-contemporaneous objects.

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1939

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