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Wild Woolly Mammoth on Exhibit in Wisconsin
The Milwaukee Public Museum has a new exhibit that is sure to be a crowd pleaser. It is a skeleton of a 14,500-year-old woolly mammoth. The bones of this ancestor of the elephant were first discovered in a cornfield in Wisconsin in 1994.
The skeleton is exciting for a couple of reasons. One is that it's the most intact skeleton of a woolly mammoth found in North America. Another interesting fact is that scrape marks on the bones probably came from people who were eating the meat.
The marks mean that humans lived in Wisconsin a thousand years earlier than scientists thought they did. They call the people who lived there the Clovis Tribe. Scientists first learned about the Clovis tribe when people started finding pieces of their tools in 1936. One thing that sets the Clovis tribe apart is the spear tips they made. Those spear tips are called Clovis points. The tribe made them by chipping flakes off of stones until they were shaped into sharp points.
We know the Clovis tribe hunted woolly mammoths because there are usually a few of these Clovis points wherever there are woolly mammoth bones. The woolly mammoth skeleton in Wisconsin is twice as tall as a person. I don't know how tasty it was, but there was sure enough food to feed a crowd!
I'm Adelbert and that's what happened in science this week!
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