Mammoth Bones Offer Clues To Lives Of Early Humans In Michigan

Woolly mammoth bones found in Chelsea in 2015 may be as much as 15,000 years old, and may reveal close about life for some of Michigan’s earliest inhabitants, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. Paleontologist Dan Fisher told mLive a second excavation at one Chelsea-area farm confirmed some of his initial theories about early life in the region.

The UM archeology team conducted two digs at the site, one in 2015, and one in late 2017. In November, researchers found the skull, tusks and many other intact woolly-Columbian mammoth hybrid bones at Jim Bristle’s farm. New findings from the 2017 dig show that humans likely ate parts of the mammoths discovered on the Bristle property, making these artifacts important clues about what life was like in in Michigan tens of thousands of years ago.

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