Confused Spring or Winter

by Peggy Franz

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Confused Spring or Winter

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Peggy Franz

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Photograph - Photography/landscape

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I Captured this In Late March of 2013 when we had our Spring Snow. The Mastodon State Historic Site, near Imperial, MO, contains one of the most important archaeological sites in Missouri - the site where archaeologists first discovered a stone weapon with the bones of American mastodons. This was the first solid evidence of the coexistence of humans and mastodons in eastern North America.At the end of the ice age that occurred from 35,000 to 10,000 years ago, the glaciers to the north were moving slowly, melting as the earth warmed, and sending streams of meltwater southward. Animals such as giant ground sloths, peccaries, and hairy, elephant-like mastodons roamed what is now Missouri.
Femur bone and tusk of an American Mastodon on display at the Mastodon State Historic Site.Bones of mastodons and other now-extinct animals were first found in the early 1800s in what is now known as the Kimmswick Bone Bed. Excavations in 1839 and the early 1900s revealed a great many well-preserved bones. The area became known as one of the most extensive Pleistocene bone beds in the country and attracted archaeological and paleontological interest worldwide.

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April 12th, 2013

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