81. Prehistoric Nebraska: Adventures With Fossils, Geology & Geography Let’s explore Nebraska’s prehistoric past and learn about its geography and The University of Nebraska State Museum has the remains of mammoths and http://www.geoworld.org/na/usa/ne/prehistory/

Prehistoric Nebraska North America United States PaleoZoo Nebraska Topics Reference Glossary About GeoWorld ... Counties PREHISTORY * On affiliated websites. Prehistoric Nebraska Woolly Mammoth Picture Courtesy Joe Tucciarone (See a larger picture M and it was still growing when it died! Archie is estimated to have weighed nearly fifteen tons. The largest known land mammal of all time was a hornless rhinoceros that lived in Asia during the Oligocene Period. But Archie was probably the largest land animal during the Ice Age. Life on the Nebraska plains during the Ice Age would have been exciting! Since little of Nebraska was actually covered by glaciers, the land probably looked much as it does today. Vast flocks of waterfowl may have fed and nested near lakes created by melting glaciers. Beavers thrived where prairie dogs live today. Some scientists wonder if people hunted mammoths to extinction. Perhaps a changing climate doomed mammoths and mastodons to extinction anyway, and humans simply hurried them on their way. Nebraskaland: Elephant Country, USA

82. Study Shows Big Game Hunters, Not Climate Change, Killed Off Sloths prehistoric big game hunters and not the last ice age are the likely These biggame hunters had a traumatic effect on the animals living there, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050803173345.htm

@import "/styles/navbar.css"; @import "/styles/tabStyles.css"; Set home page Bookmark site Add search Latest News ... Email to friend Text Size A A A Front Page ... Advertise With Us Source University of Florida Date Print this page Email to friend Study Shows Big Game Hunters, Not Climate Change, Killed Off Sloths GAINESVILLE, Fla. Prehistoric big game hunters and not the last ice age are the likely culprits in the extinction of giant ground sloths and other North American great mammals such as mammoths, mastodons and saber-toothed tigers, says a University of Florida researcher. University of Florida ornithologist David Steadman holds the skull of an extinct ground sloth that was uncovered from a cave in Haiti. In the foreground is a much larger sloth skull that was found in Ormond Beach, Fla. The giant skull belonged to an animal that weighed at least three tons and lived about 15,000 years ago, while the smaller sloth, which may have lived in trees as well as on the ground, weighed between 10 and 15 pounds and dates from 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. (University of Florida/Kristen Bartlett) Related News Stories Humans Hunted Mammals To Extinction In North America (June 8, 2001)

83. Prehistoric Animals In Architecture And Sculpture prehistoric animals in Architecture and Sculpture Earth mastodons, mammothsand other great mammals. jhLincoln5.jpg (21606 bytes) http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/macleay/prehistoric animals.htm

Prehistoric Animals in Architecture and Sculpture Sculpture and relief panels at the George C. Page Museum, Los Angeles Representations of prehistoric life have come a long way over the past century or so. Some of these representations have been made vivid in sculpture and architectural decoration. - Julian Holland Where would the animals be without plants? The Eocene Grove outside the Geology Museum, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Fossil ammonite incorporated into a domestic garden wall, England The following six photographs show a small selection of the wonderful mosaic representations of prehistoric animals in the Capitol Building in Lincoln, Nebraska. The mosaics were designed by Hildreth Meiere. The animals inhabit the guilloche (band) that links four circles representing the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - with the central figure of Mother Nature. The overall design was inspired by a pattern in the floor of the Cathedral of Siena. Meiere's design occupies the floor of the rotunda, the centrepiece of the Capitol which was built between 1922 and 1932. The animals, all from Nebraska's own geological history, are grouped with the four elements as follows:

84. Blather Archives: Mammoth Tales of apparently impossibly animals, such as live mammoths, rubbished by many, And so we are introduced to these intelligent animals and their engaging http://www.blather.net/archives2/issue2no14.html

Shitegeist Articles Bookstore T-Shirts ... Home Visit: hellshaw.com p45.net p45rant.com rawilson.com ... dacianos ARCHIVES MAMMOTH TALES Back in Blather 1.52 , mention was made of having seen and heard retired Royal Engineer Colonel John Blashford-Snell at UnCon98, speaking about his 'Mammoth Hunt' to Nepal. Back then, Blather promised to bring you a discussion of the book *Mammoth Hunt In Search of the Giant Elephants of Nepal*, co-written by Blashford-Snell with actress Rula Lenska. Well, finally perused, and finally closed a matter of hours ago, *Mammoth Hunt* is one of those rare books that can only be described as a Damned Good Read. Around 1987, Blashford-Snell (hitherto referred to as JBS) was made aware of rumours concerning 'giant mammoths' which were pillaging villages in remote areas of Nepal. JBS, who has been leading expeditions to remote regions for many years with Operation Raleigh, Discovery Expeditions and the Scientific Exploration Society decided that Nepal was a good place to bring the *clients* of Discovery Expeditions. In all, some seven separate expeditions were executed between 1991 and 1997, the first team containing many tired and listless executives in need of a good shaking up, as well as one Mark O'Shea, described as being a 'mad Irish snake expert'. While *Mammoth Hunt* isn't the kind of book usually discussed in Blather, i.e. it doesn't deal with phenomenalism, at least not in any deliberate sense, *Mammoth Hunt* would be of definite interest to everyone from the armchair-adventurer, those interested in travelling to more *exotic* locations, and to readers with even just a passing interest in cryptozoology.

85. Laurie Caple distinguished by enormous curling tusks, mammoths were the largest land animalsof the Ice Age. Giant Shark Megalodon, prehistoric Super Predator http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/authors/caple.html

86. Export Development Canada (EDC) -- ExportWise (Summer 2004) -- No Bones About It Exporting dinosaurs is tricky business, but prehistoric Animal Structures Of these, mammoths have been a very popular item to the point where PAST has http://www.edc.ca/corpinfo/pubs/exportwise/summer04/p06_e.htm

Small Business Solutions No Bones About It! Exporting dinosaurs is tricky business, but Prehistoric Animal Structures has carved out a niche market by bringing these magnificent creatures back to life. By Cressida Barnabe Fifteen years ago, the signs were all there that Alberta-based Prehistoric Animal Structures Inc. was on to a good idea. Not four days after opening their doors in October 1989, two faces appeared in the window as Gilles Danis and his partners Don Jeffrey and Keith Russell (now both retired) were burning the midnight oil. Deep in the middle of cattle country, the gentlemen were looking for a vegetarian restaurant  oh, and they just happened to have a dinosaur they needed mounted. Not such a crazy idea after all The idea of forming a private company that specialized in mounting skeletons for museums and exhibitions, came while Danis and his partners were working for the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta. A Japanese publishing group wanted to rent a dinosaur exhibit for the summer and bring it back to Japan. While their original request was turned down, an alternative was proposed, and as a result, Danis headed a team seconded to Japan to build and install a special exhibit. While working on the project, Danis asked himself, "What's the chance that there's a market for dinosaurs in the world? Zero-to-half a per cent - but we'll do it anyway!" And so began Prehistoric Animal Structures (PAST). It was while they were preparing for their trip to Japan, that Danis and his partners had a visit from their vegetarian friends - the first of many contracts.

87. ScienceWeek ON WOOLLY mammoths Most entrancing of all the Ice Age creatures are the woollymammoths We know no other prehistoric animal that died out so intimately. http://scienceweek.com/2003/sc030606.htm

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88. Invitation To The 2nd Congress "The World Of Elephants" Conference Interested in elephants, mastodonts, mammoths, and their ancestors and *The Making of the Yukagir Mammoth the Reconstruction of a prehistoric Animal http://www.mammothsite.com/WorldofElephants.html

Back to Mammoth Site Home Page Interested in elephants, mastodonts, mammoths, and their ancestors and related fauna? Then you are invited to participate in all sessions, workshops and field trips at the 2nd International Congress "The World of Elephants" September 22-25, 2005. Information Contact: larry4mammoth@mammothsite.com or mammoth@mammothsite.com The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota Telephone: 1-605-745-6017 FAX: 1-605-745-3038 Mailing Address: PO Box 692 Hot Springs, SD 57747 USA The conference will be hosted by the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota and the City of Hot Springs. Field trips, symposia, poster sessions, and workshops will be held. Options of pre- and post-sessions field trips are offered. Rapid City is the closest regional airport and car rental (ca. 60 miles) and is served by United, Northwest, Frontier, Great Lakes and Delta Airlines. Attendees may wish to rent vehicles for pre- and post-session opportunities to visit the many area attractions the Black Hills (and adjacent states) have to offer. Register on-line here...major credit cards accepted

89. Prehistoric DNA To Help Solve Human-Evolution Mysteries? prehistoric DNA to Help Solve HumanEvolution Mysteries? DNA extracted fromspecimens of extinct animals has already been used to show that the http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0325_040325_hominiddna.html

Site Index Subscribe Shop Search Top 15 Most Popular Stories NEWS Front Page Environment Health Offbeat ... Video in the News SPECIAL SERIES The Genographic Project Pulse of the Planet National Geographic Channel RESOURCES (What's this?) Contact Us sponsored in part by Front Page Prehistoric DNA to Help Solve Human-Evolution Mysteries? John Pickrell in England for National Geographic News March 25, 2004 It may be possible to extract DNA from the bones of human ancestors and other hominids who died up to one million years ago, researchers believe. Hominids are primates that walk upright, including humans and extinct human ancestors and related forms. Experts speaking at a chemistry conference held in Chicago earlier this month argued that ancient genetic material could be used to better understand the relationships among hominids and answer questions about the evolution of speech and other defining traits of humans. "DNA is a relatively weak molecule, comparatively speaking, yet under certain conditions it persists in the fossil record despite what chemistry [in the lab] predicts," said Hendrik Poinar, a molecular anthropologist at McMaster University in Ontario Canada. Fragments of genetic material may survive much longer in fossils than laboratory experiments have so far predicted, he said. Revolution in Evolution Studies The study of ancient human evolution is one of science's most contentious disciplines. Anthropologists are frequently locked in debate on issues ranging from migration to classification of hominid species. However, new molecular techniques may now revolutionize the field, as well as the study of ancient plants and other animals.

90. Prehistoric Women - Further Information Cave paintings of mammoths caveman feigning attack on mammoth. Leigh DaytonPTC Is this your image of prehistoric life? A brave caveman facing down a http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/scripts98/9823/pwomenscpt.htm

Transcript and further information for 'Prehistoric Women' On Air: Thursday 8th October Leigh Dayton PTC: Is this your image of prehistoric life? A brave caveman facing down a raging woolly mammoth in order to feed the family back at the cave? Well, some researchers say we, and most pre-historians, have it wrong. These renegade researchers argue that it was we women who were bringing home the ice age bacon. And the guys, well.. Jim looks at book Dr Jim Adovasio: If you walk into any archaeology or anthropology library and pull off virtually any volume on the archaeology of anywhere, and it's the archaeology written by men about men. It's about stone tools its about hunting if it mentions female activities in some recent level of ... Professor Olga Soffer: Cooking, cooking. Dr Jim Adovasio: Yeah its cooking ... child rearing or some nondescript female specific activity that really is given as short a shrift as can possibly be done. Erie Pennsylvania Narration: This quiet mid-western town is where Professor Olga Soffer and Dr Jim Adovasio swap pre-historic heresies. Jim is a leader in the study of early fibre technology. And Olga is a world expert on prehistoric hunting. She studies people who lived between 22,000 to 29,000 years ago in central Europe, where, for decades, archaeologists have been digging up these little figurines, along with stone tools, weapons, and lots and lots of mammoth bones. All those bones puzzled Olga.

91. Mall's Play Area: Wild And Woolly Big Bone Lick State Park in Union is known for its fossils of mammoths and otherprehistoric animals that frequented the salt licks at the site. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/03/24/loc_malls_play_area_wild.html

Front Page Local Sports Bengals ... Search /* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. */ var pageName="" var server="" var channel="" var pageType="" var pageValue="" var prop1="" var prop2="" var prop3="" var prop4="" var prop5="" var prop6="news" var prop7="" var prop8="" var prop9="" var prop10="" /********* INSERT THE DOMAIN AND PATH TO YOUR CODE BELOW ************/ /********** DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING ELSE BELOW THIS LINE! *************/ var s_code=' ' E N Q U I R E R L O C A L N E W S C O V E R A G E Friday, March 24, 2000 Mall's play area: wild and woolly BY ANDREA TORTORA The Cincinnati Enquirer FLORENCE The idea is to educate and entertain children, said Elena Miller, mall marketing director. The project was inspired by local history. Big Bone Lick State Park in Union is known for its fossils of mammoths and other prehistoric animals that frequented the salt licks at the site. Some 10,000 years ago, the salt and minerals at Big Bone Lick attracted woolly mammoths, the saber-toothed cat and the giant beaver. Some sank into the ground, where their bones were preserved. The mall play area will feature replicas of the mammoths and information about Big Bone Lick. The Cincinnati Zoo and the Cincinnati Museum Center also worked to create the educational area.

92. La Grotte Chauvet Indeed, it would seem that, 31000 years ago, prehistoric man was already paintingand Next come the lions, mammoths and horses (two of which are yellow, http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/label_france/ENGLISH/SCIENCES/CHAUVET/cha.html

Fur-clad Michelangelos , this Palaeolithic sanctuary, slowly divulges its secrets, it is furrowing the brows of many prehistorians. Indeed, it would seem that, 31,000 years ago, prehistoric man was already painting and engraving with hitherto unsuspected skill and dexterity. We decided to take a closer look. utside, despite the sun, a biting cold lingers at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc on this day, December 18, 1994. But down here, the damp clay generously exudes a fine fragrance and the temperature is pleasant. The silence is deadening and the darkness total and impenetrable: we are some thirty feet below ground. The adventure is about to begin for Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel-Deschamps and Christian Hillaire, all bound by the same passion: potholing through the hidden depths of their region. While busily exploring a cave, they are intrigued by a draught of air. On closer inspection, they discover a cavity, then a vast network of galleries and rooms. From then on, their progress is punctuated by amazement and emotion. Under the stark light of their miner's lamps a breathtaking backdrop unfolds: gigantic columns of white and orange calc-spar, alternately translucent and nacreous, splendid draperies of minerals, sparkling carpets... Scattered on the ground are the bones of bears, some of them inside hibernating shelters; the walls are scratched with claw marks... Suddenly, Eliette gasps: the image of a small mammoth has just appeared before her.

93. Net4TV Voice The Exploitation Of The Mammoth The Hairy mammoths were entirely herbivorous, or plant eating. Further morewhat do we hope to achieve by bringing a prehistoric animal back from http://www.net4tv.com/voice/Story.cfm?storyID=1806

94. Prehistoric Humans Wiped Out Elephants - Forums Powered By UBBThreads™ The findings suggest that the geographic expansion of prehistoric humans resultedin localized In the Americas both mammoths and mastodons died out. http://uplink.space.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=animal&Number=199453&page=0&view

95. KCTV5 - Crews Working On Wichita Freeway Project Make Prehistoric Find the tusk of a prehistoric animal discovered late last week by crews working on a mammoths were the largest land mammals known to have lived in North http://www.kctv5.com/Global/story.asp?S=3692108

96. Template prehistoric animals by Christopher Lampton. Franklin Watts, 1983. urc,ol.prehistoric animals by Gail Gibbons. Holiday House, 1988. urc,chn,ol http://urbanafreelibrary.org/cdnathi.htm

The Urbana Free Library Children's Department Natural History and Science Books Fossils Back to Books! Books! Books! Fossils: Clues to Prehistoric Life www.spurlock.uiuc.edu/ Fossils The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils by Ida Thompson. Random House, 1982. urn,chn,ol Collecting Fossils; Hold Prehistory in the Palm of Your Hand by Steve and Jane Parker. Sterling Publishing, 1997. urc,chn, ol Collecting Small Fossils by Lois J. Hussey. Crowell, 1970. urc,ol Fossil Detective; Nature Club by Joyce Pope. Troll, 1994. urc,chn,ol Fossil; Eyewitness Books by Paul D. Taylor. Knopf, 1990. urc,chn,ol Fossils by Mark Lambert. Arco Publishing, Inc., 1978. urn,ol Fossils Tell of Long Ago by Aliki. HarperCollins, 1972. urc,chn,ol Fossils: Eyewitness Handbook by Cyril Walker and David Ward. Dorling Kindersley, Inc., 1992. urn,chn,ol

97. DNA And The Environment In fact, scientists determined the animal DNA belonged to eight differentprehistoric and now extinct animals the woolly mammoth, steppe bison, http://www.priweb.org/ed/ICTHOL/ICTHOL04papers/19.htm

For many decades, there has been an overwhelming curiosity about what life was like before humans ruled the earth - back when life on land, off land, and even the very land itself was very different than it is today. Pieces of this puzzle have been discovered all over the world, ranging from perfectly preserved skeletons at the bottom of bodies of water to fragments discovered in vast deserts. Due to the conditions of the ancient finds, there is only so much that can be deciphered about the past, which leads to the creations of various theories of what life was like in different areas and why and when it changed. However, in at least one stretch of land, there is a lot that can be told thanks to one of the best finds in recent history: some of the oldest DNA ever recovered. This amazing find was first reported in April of 2003, when it was told that animal and plant DNA was found in the permafrost of northeastern Siberia (Thomas 2003). The permafrost was located between the Lena and Kolyma rivers of former western Beringia and was drilled out under scrupulous conditions – using extreme care not to let any of the precious samples become contaminated.

98. AP Wire | 08/07/2005 | Crews Working On Wichita Freeway Project Make Prehistoric Archeologists will examine what appears to be the tusk of a prehistoric animaldiscovered late last week by crews working on a Wichita freeway construction http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/state/12326571.htm

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99. "Paleo-Indians": Prehistoric People Of The Desert Southwest - DesertUSA They clothed their bodies with animal skins and plant fibers. (We know withcertainty that later prehistoric hunters used the atlatl.) http://www.desertusa.com/ind1/du_peo_paleo.html

The Paleo-Indians - PALEO-INDIANS: SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT - Arrival date uncertain to 6500 B. C. The earliest arrivals and their physical and cultural descendants, collectively called "Paleo-Indians" (meaning "ancient" Indians), appear to have occupied the Americas, including the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, for 10,000 to perhaps 40,000 years – a period of time longer than that for all the succeeding cultures combined. They left a minimal and fragmentary record of their lives. The search for evidence of Paleo-Indians compares to a hunt for ghosts in a dense fog. For thousands of years, they survived by foraging, possibly without even spear points for hunting. They may have trapped or bludgeoned smaller game. Bands may have gathered to drive big game herds over cliffs, killing many of the animals in a single event. Opportunists, they preyed on newborn, crippled, wounded, sick and aging animals. They appropriated fresh predatory animal kills. They harvested, processed and cooked edible plant seeds, roots and fruits. They probably ate insects, including the larvae. The Paleo-Indians made simple stone tools, using "flint knapping," or stone chipping, techniques similar to those of ancient people in northeastern Siberia to shape raw flint and chert into crude chopping, cutting, gouging, hammering and scraping tools. They fashioned other crude tools, including pointed implements, from the bones of animals. They used flat milling stones to process plant foods, grinding seeds, for example, into flour. They made other tools and camp and personal gear from sources such as wood, plant fibers, mammoth and mastodon tusks, large animal horns and intestines, but most such artifacts have perished and disappeared over time.

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