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Columbian mammoth
About this photograph
Photo by S. W. Clyde.
- Date created
- 2001
- Location
- Price, Utah
- License
- This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
- Source
- Original image housed by National Scenic Byways Online
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- Two worlds: Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony: First part of a North Carolina history text for secondary students, covering the land, American Indians before contact with Europeans, Spanish exploration, the Roanoke colony, and the Columbian Exchange. (Page 2.1)
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- Search LEARN NC for Columbian mammoth, fossils, mammoths, and megafauna.
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This Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) is on display at the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah. It was discovered by a bulldozer operator in Huntington, Utah in 1998. The skeleton, when uncovered, was 90 percent complete.
The Columbian Mammoth lived in North America during Middle and Late Pleistocene and became extinct about 9,000 years ago. Archaeologists believe that this mammoth lived about 10,500 years ago.
