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“#Woolly mammoth tusk found during roadwork in Oregon<\/strong>”
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It was a mammoth discovery!<\/p>\n

Crews rerouting a gas line in the city of Corvallis, Ore., uncovered the 12,000-year-old tusk of a woolly mammoth beneath the roadway.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever doing this type of work, our crews are very careful to keep any eye out for any type of materials they may find while working that could be fragile or historic,\u201d a spokeswoman for NW Natural, the gas company doing the work, told the Corvallis Gazette-Times.<\/a> \u201cAs is our protocol, we stopped work immedia<\/a>tely.\u201d<\/p>\n

The excavation work was being done for the city government, part of a project on water lines and storm drains in the area. The company contacted Corvallis officials, who brought in Oregon State University\u2019s Loren Davis, an anthropology professor who researches archaeological sites from western North America that date from the Pleistocene era, more than 12,000 years ago.<\/p>\n

Davis said that the mammoth, which co-existed with early humans, probably was buried in the great Missoula floods of the Pleistocene era. The tusk is about 6 feet below ground level, and extends into the construction trench wall, meaning more of the animal\u2019s body might be hidden underground.<\/p>\n

The exact reason it ended up there is \u201ca bit of a mystery,\u201d Davis said. \u201cThe world was changing structure to a post-glacial one. People also were present. There might have been environmental factors as well as hunting pressure. It could be lots of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early humans not only hunted mammoths for food, but used their bones and tusks to make tools, dwellings and art.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Woolly mammoth tusk found during roadwork in Oregon” It was a mammoth discovery! Crews rerouting a gas line in the city of Corvallis, Ore., uncovered the 12,000-year-old tusk of a woolly mammoth beneath the roadway. \u201cWhenever doing this type of work, our crews are very careful to keep any eye out for any type of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/wooly-mammoth.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[109880,73233,81964,8030],"class_list":["post-279113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-19-21","tag-construction","tag-fossils","tag-oregon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}