Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Prehistoric Mastodon hunt

EurekAlert. "Evidence from a prehistoric mastodon hunt." EuekAlert. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2011.
  <http://www.eurekalert.org/features/kids/2011-10/aaft-efa101411.php>.


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The mastodon hunt is a hunt of mastodon. They have now found some evidence of it. The piece they found is thirteen thousand eight hundred years old. They found this in 1970 but, they thought it was fourteen thousand years old, they have been debating it ever since then. The scientists used the type of dating named mass spectrometry to date it. That dated the carbon in it. The scientists finally found out that the bone they found was a rib bone. That proves that the people were hunting
mastodons and mammoths. It proves it because it was made out of mastodon bone.When you think about that this is a very long time ago because they were hunting mammoths.

Here is the bone they found.


This was an interesting article. I never knew about these things before. However it was a bit confusing so I wished that they explained what it was a bit more.

1 comment:

  1. This was a well written summary and an interesting article. However, I would like you to work on writing longer reflections. Refer to the papers I gave you for writing reflections about current event news articles.

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