Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Cave Men only "Oooga Booga" => Topic started by: mullet on December 08, 2007, 03:20:16 pm
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I thought I'd share this with everybody.I don't know how familiar everybody is with fossils,but I thought since this is the caveman section I'd show you some remains of their chief prey.These pictures are the molars of a species of small Mastodon and the Woolly Mammoth.I found the little 3 humper mastodon tooth at work and the Mammoth tooth diving the rivers.
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thats cool eddie.wouldn't have known if you didn't tell me.have a good hunt with cade if i dont talk to ya sooner.
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Thanks Tom,
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I've seen one of those before - it's in the San Jacinto monument museum, I believe they found it in the marsh while building the road in. Nice find!
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Sure those aint coprolites there Eddie :D? Cool find...got a freind at work thats found 2 of them in the same creek not far from me. They look like huge molars, bigger than a fist.....Brian
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Mastodon or Mammoth ,Brian?
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Told me mammoth, but he wasnt sure...maybe I can talk him out of a picture to post here....Brian
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Cool stuff, Eddie. I've got a big chunk of mammoth molar that I got from your buddy Rick down at the Clinch River knap-in. Pretty fascinating stuff.
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former,thats whats for dinner over here,jk
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Golly! By the title I thought you were going to post some coprolite's (Fossilized human Pooh!)!!!
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That was just to get your attention,David.
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Cool! I am glad that you stated it was a mastodon tooth. When I first looked at it, it look like fossilized " former cave man food ".
I have a Friend that lives on the peace river in Arcadia, and he has a nice peice of a pelvis of some sort of critter. I have some pieces of sea cow rib, and some pieces I don't know what they are. But he is in a nice place, and there is a deep hole in the river, right next to his house. Yep it is on stilts. But there are a lot neat stuff found in that river. You have a couple of nice fossils. I would like to find some like that. Oh, while I am at it, when would be a good time to get together with, and your neighbor, to go over some knapping, and such. I will buy the refreshments. Are you still working in La. ? I am retired, and pooor now. My income has been cut in less than half. But I can still afford to buy refreshments. But anyhoo, I am not hindered by work anymore, so whenever it would be convenient for you let me know. I would love to meet you, and go over knapping, and other primitive stuff.
Stick Bender ( Wayne Kimberly )
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Sorry Wayne, I just saw this. The Mammoth tooth came out of the Peace River just a little south of Ft. Meade. If you want to get together and go by Claudes, send me a PM and I'll give you my phone number. Don't worry about the liquid refreshments, He is a teetotaler, but I always have some in the fridge in the shop. I'm going back to Brazil in a week or so but you can email me at work, just PM me.
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it would take a big pot of beans to cook the jowls with that those come out of
Dennis
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That's cool. A friend of mine unearthed a juvenile mastadon in Indiana a couple of years ago. The irony was that it was in his sunflower dove field and our lab's kept messing with a "stick" where we were shooting and curiosity got the best of him (Veterinarian) and ended up excavating a fully intact juvenile mastadon. It's at the State Museum in Indianapolis on display.
Tracy
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That's cool, wasn't there an article written about it? I know I read it somewhere.
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Yes there was, don't recall the original source. It gained attraction because there weren't any fully intact juveniles at the time. It's the subject of our conversations when dove shooting that field every year. He put in a waterhole/pond where the archeologist site was and now it's even better dove hunting.
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Those pictures are cool but Id like a size reference.
Are they 1" or 15"? I cant tell.
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Eddie, I met Rick at the Letchworth Knappin in NY an I just jokingly asked if he knew a guy named Mullet an he says Oh ya he comes over to my place an dives with me,Wow what a small world, an Rick has some really neat fossils an is quite educated with this stuff. Later Bob . Oh nice find.
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Bob; yea, Rick is a good friend. It's just hard to catch him at home.
Ramsay, the mastodon tooth is about 7" long and the mammoth tooth is close to a foot.