MAC #10: Manis Mastodon Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 11/12/2012
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Presents this geocache highlighting a bit of the history of our beautiful city and the surrounding valley.

This geocache is part of the Sequim Centennial History Challenge series.


MANIS MASTODON

These photographs documenting the Manis Mastodon archaeological digs conducted in the late 1970s and early 1980s were taken by Clare Manis. The full pictural collection is housed in the MAC Photo Archives, located in the DeWitt Building. MAC

Pre-Clovis Mastodon Hunting 13,800 Years Ago at the Manis Site, Washington

"Abstract: The tip of a projectile point made of mastodon bone is embedded in a rib of a single disarticulated mastodon at the Manis site in the state of Washington. Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis show that the rib is associated with the other remains and dates to 13,800 years ago. Thus, osseous projectile points, common to the Beringian Upper Paleolithic and Clovis, were made and used during pre-Clovis times in North America. The Manis site, combined with evidence of mammoth hunting at sites in Wisconsin, provides evidence that people were hunting proboscideans at least two millennia before Clovis." ScienceMag.org

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