Mastodon skull unearthed by University of Iowa archaeologistsUniversity of Iowa /TMX
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00:00I was contacted by a private individual here in Wayne County that he had become
00:13aware that a very large bone had been found in this drainage. So we're looking
00:18at the face of the animal. Trump would have come out of there. We have one tusk
00:23right in front of Veronica. Mastodons have been around for hundreds of
00:26thousands of years, millions, and only overlap of humans in the very last
00:31couple thousand years. We dug down through the sand layer that you can see
00:34into this material below, which preserves vegetation. And that vegetation we were
00:39able to then get a radiocarbon date on that corrected comes out to 13,600 years
00:45ago.