http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/anci...s-stadium/

The football stadium is undergoing a renovation, and they found bones from woolly mammoths.

On the radio the archaeologist was saying that they halted digging for the stadium expansion project to call him, and then when he got out there the workers were very cooperative in making sure that no bones got damaged. He also said that there's a lot more specimens at the site.

The archaeologist also said that he believes the site continues under the existing part of the stadium too (the part that's not being renovated). He sounded wistful, like he had already concluded that he'd never get to dig that part up. What struck me was the difference between his attitude about the bones under the existing facility and the rest of the bones that he hasn't dug up yet from the part being renovated. The first thing I thought of was to think of the consequences of giving him the time to excavate the whole site. Would the renovation project be complete in time for the 2016 football season?

I'd hope that something could be arranged down the road that would allow this guy, his colleagues, or someone else from his field to access and safely remove the currently-inaccessible parts of the site. I'm sure that the specimens the site renders as is will be significant to American archaeology, but it must really sting to potentially have even more just out of reach.

What an opportunity for a school that currently has a rodent as its mascot! The OSU Mammoths - has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

(01-29-2016 03:37 PM)ken d Wrote:  What an opportunity for a school that currently has a rodent as its mascot! The OSU Mammoths - has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

Or combine the two animals. The woolly beavers.

(01-29-2016 03:49 PM)Jimmy Wrote:  

(01-29-2016 03:37 PM)ken d Wrote:  What an opportunity for a school that currently has a rodent as its mascot! The OSU Mammoths - has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

Or combine the two animals. The woolly beavers.

I'm not even going to touch that.

leave it to Oregon State......at least they didn't build on an old cemetery.

No geologists/paleontologists at Oregon State? Unless those bones are evidence of an ancient harvest by humans, they called in the wrong "experts."

(01-29-2016 06:13 PM)colohank Wrote:  No geologists/paleontologists at Oregon State? Unless those bones are evidence of an ancient harvest by humans, they called in the wrong "experts."

archaeologist, paleontologist, same difference to me. Don't geologists focus on rocks and earthquakes? My bad if I said the wrong one in the first post.

(01-29-2016 03:49 PM)Jimmy Wrote:  

(01-29-2016 03:37 PM)ken d Wrote:  What an opportunity for a school that currently has a rodent as its mascot! The OSU Mammoths - has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

Or combine the two animals. The woolly beavers.

That is so wrong.









It would clearly be the Mammoth Beavers.

(01-29-2016 06:42 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(01-29-2016 06:13 PM)colohank Wrote:  No geologists/paleontologists at Oregon State? Unless those bones are evidence of an ancient harvest by humans, they called in the wrong "experts."

archaeologist, paleontologist, same difference to me. Don't geologists focus on rocks and earthquakes? My bad if I said the wrong one in the first post.

Media reports had it wrong. The Oregon State professor who looked at the mammoth bones, and was quoted, is an anthropologist.

And yes, it looks like they don't have paleontologists on faculty at OSU.

Tear up the entire and site for 1 square mile and see what is below.

A mammoth find means there has to be prehistoric men.

(01-30-2016 10:52 AM)Kittonhead Wrote:  Tear up the entire and site for 1 square mile and see what is below.

A mammoth find means there has to be prehistoric men.

Not necessarily. There were mammoths roaming around North America for perhaps 400,000 years before the first humans arrived on the scene.

(01-30-2016 11:19 AM)colohank Wrote:  

(01-30-2016 10:52 AM)Kittonhead Wrote:  Tear up the entire and site for 1 square mile and see what is below.

A mammoth find means there has to be prehistoric men.

Not necessarily. There were mammoths roaming around North America for perhaps 400,000 years before the first humans arrived on the scene.

Nobody in government is going to require them to dig up the whole field. They all knew where Jimmy Hoffa was buried all along! They just never thought anyone would look at Beaver Stadium.

(01-30-2016 11:40 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-30-2016 11:19 AM)colohank Wrote:  

(01-30-2016 10:52 AM)Kittonhead Wrote:  Tear up the entire and site for 1 square mile and see what is below.

A mammoth find means there has to be prehistoric men.

Not necessarily. There were mammoths roaming around North America for perhaps 400,000 years before the first humans arrived on the scene.

Nobody in government is going to require them to dig up the whole field. They all knew where Jimmy Hoffa was buried all along! They just never thought anyone would look at Beaver Stadium.

Start the dig a week before football season begins.