Skull leads to inairimntfi finfting
SAN MIGUEL TOCUILA,
Mexico (AP) — Joel Aviles and
some fellow workers were digging
a hole for a water tank when their
picks struck something hard in the
muddy, gray earth.
“We dug some more to see what
it was, and that’s when we found the
skull,” he said. “We were stunned.”
No ordinary skull .though; it be
longed to a mammoth that lived
10,000 to 50,000 years ago. When
scientists were called in, they dis
covered one of central Mexico’s
biggest mammoth graveyards.
While skulls and bones of mam
moths have turned up previously
around nearby Lake Texcoco, those
finds were nothing like the July 29
discovery in San Miguel Tocuila,
which is 20 miles east of Mexico
City.
Already, a pit about 15 feet deep
beside a cornfield has yielded bones
from at least eight mammoths as
well as fossilized bones of ancient
bison, flamingos and other wildlife.
“The find in San Miguel Tocuila
is extraordinary, said Joaquin Ar
royo Cabrales of the National Insti
tute of Anthropology and History.
“When we first got the call, we
thought it would be just one mam
moth skull.”
Arroyo said the scientists had
learned that since 1945, villagers
had not reported at least a dozen
earlier finds of mammoth bones,
mostly bits and pieces.
Mammoths flourished during
the Ice Age. For millions of years
they roamed the North American
continent and southward. Then they
died out just as prehistoric hunters
were spreading over from what is
now Siberia, scientists theorize.
Some scientists think the huge
beasts were hunted to extinction.
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They’re just enormous! I’ve
never seen anything like this!”
Lauba Estrada
visitor to Tbcuila mammoth site
Mexican paleontologists hope
studies at the site in this high valley
will provide new clues about the
huge beasts.
A team led by Arroyo and ar
chaeologist Luis Morett of the Au
tonomous University of Chapingo
are seeking to determine when these
“Tocuila” mammoths lived, whether
humans co-existed and how the
mammoths died.
"We are looking for evidence of
human activity, though none has
been found thus far,” said Eduardo
Corona, a researcher with Arroyo
at the Paleozoology Lab of the Na
tional Institute of Anthropology and
History.
Daniel Fisher, a University of
Michigan paleontologist not in
volved in the find, said the fact that
several mammoths had been found
at one site could yield data about
their movements, feeding habits and
even climate changes.
“Interpreting growth layers in
their tusks and teeth can say things
about their age at death, their diets,
the climates they experienced from
year to year,” said Fisher, a self-de
scribed “mammoth hunter.”
Along with the scientists have
come tourists.
People stream into town on the
weekends to peer at the skulls and
giant tusks of what once were beasts
weighing four tons or more.
“They’re just enormous! I’ve
never seen anything like this!” said
Laura Estrada, as her 5-year-old
niece Rosa tiptoed to squint through
a chain link fence into the pit.
With trunks and lengthy tusks,
prehistoric mammoths were closely
related to present-day elephants.
Some measured more than 14 feet
high at the shoulders.
“Oh, it’s so much bigger than an
elephant!” said Rosa, admiring
tusks twice her height and yellowed
teeth as big as bowling bails.
Celso Ramirez, the owner of the
property, had already built a small
restaurant on his land before the dis
covery.
“It’s been fascinating watching
the archaeologists. Every day they
find something new,” said Maria del
Carmen Patino, the restaurant’s
cook, hawking tortillas and soft
drinks to passers-by.
Boiling a pot of meaty chicken
bones, she watched as a scientist in
the pit carefully painted mammoth
bones with protective sealant.
“They are taking the soil out by
the spoonful so they don’t damage
the bones. I’m sure they’ll find
more. They are so beautiful. I never
get tired of seeing them,” Patino
said.
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