Tejaas
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Alright folks, here is a Mastodon tusk found here in the TX Hill Country.
It was discovered while we were doing some cut and fill work with a D7 at the ranch.
After a pass with the blade, which cross sectioned the tusk almost perfectly, we noticed it easily... The chalk white color stood out against the wet dirt really well.
Needless to say, we were done for the day!
These were two of the better pictures we took, as it was difficult to photograph due to its length. We couldn't manage to get it all in the frame without standing on the control arm of the dozer for an "aerial view".
We called the nearest university (name withheld) and requested they come out to do a field dig. It was really cool to be a part of an archeology team, on our own property!
These two pictures are "photos of photos". I pulled these two hard copies from the collection and snapped a picture of them as kind of a makeshift digital copy. I figured crappy pictures are better than NO pictures!
You can see the full outline of the tusk if you look close. As a reference, the Case knife is 3" long.
We have the official site report in a safe deposit box. The university sent us our copy a few months after the dig was completed. The next time I make it back home I will stop by the bank and pull it to get some copies to post here on the forum.
The site report is a spiral bound book, almost 400 pages long, complete with professional scale photography shots documenting the grid layouts, plaster casting, table layouts of the tusk after removing it from the ground, etc...
It also records the prehistoric history of our region, soil analysis, itemized inventory, locations according to grid, etc.
Anyways, I thought some of you would enjoy this.
Happy Halloween!
It was discovered while we were doing some cut and fill work with a D7 at the ranch.
After a pass with the blade, which cross sectioned the tusk almost perfectly, we noticed it easily... The chalk white color stood out against the wet dirt really well.
Needless to say, we were done for the day!
These were two of the better pictures we took, as it was difficult to photograph due to its length. We couldn't manage to get it all in the frame without standing on the control arm of the dozer for an "aerial view".
We called the nearest university (name withheld) and requested they come out to do a field dig. It was really cool to be a part of an archeology team, on our own property!
These two pictures are "photos of photos". I pulled these two hard copies from the collection and snapped a picture of them as kind of a makeshift digital copy. I figured crappy pictures are better than NO pictures!
You can see the full outline of the tusk if you look close. As a reference, the Case knife is 3" long.
We have the official site report in a safe deposit box. The university sent us our copy a few months after the dig was completed. The next time I make it back home I will stop by the bank and pull it to get some copies to post here on the forum.
The site report is a spiral bound book, almost 400 pages long, complete with professional scale photography shots documenting the grid layouts, plaster casting, table layouts of the tusk after removing it from the ground, etc...
It also records the prehistoric history of our region, soil analysis, itemized inventory, locations according to grid, etc.
Anyways, I thought some of you would enjoy this.
Happy Halloween!
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