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Snowmass Village retail stores started selling mammoth stuffed animals and mammoth T-shirts. Soon thereafter, representations of mammoths and mastodons started appearing on the mountain.
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The stunning tally included parts of eight to 10 mastodons, four Columbian mammoths, two Ice Age deer, four Ice Age bison and one Jefferson's ground sloth (the first ever found in Colorado), plus one tiger salamander, insects and small crustaceans." The entire article is quoted below in the section following the photos. In the weeks that followed, the layers of earth at Ziegler Reservoir produced about 600 bones and bone pieces, including 15 tusks, plus hundreds of pounds of plant matter. I kinda think its random deaths, near a favorite watering hole, with a burying mechanism.As stated in a DecemAspen Times newspaper article, "The bones of a Columbian mammoth turned up at the site of a reservoir excavation near Snowmass Village in October, turning the resort town on its ear and capturing headlines around the country. It happend a couple times in the 80's killing hundreds of people and livestock in Africa. Another co2 scenario is called " Lake overturn" or a Limnic eruption, It can be caused by a simple landslide, that forces the co2 compessed water from the bottom of a lake to the surface, releasing the co2. Don't know if the pond was large enough-paintings depict it as being very small. Earthquake strikes, and much like shaking a soda bottle, CO2 erupts, filling the basin and causing suffocation. Large buildup of organic material that is slowly decaying in the bottom of the pond, CO2 is trapped in the ooze. There is no record of bison being found mired by liquifaction, in an area that was prime for it.īurping could occur under this scenario.
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There are a series of a sand hills that rise some 20-30 feet above that flood plain, that held large number of bison at that time. “Pretty elaborate theory … it's one of the few ways we have to explain the pattern we see.”Īre there other kill sites that have been attributed to liquifaction? When the New Madrid eqathquakes of 1811-12 struck, S.E. L“The bones were beautifully preserved, but they weren't attached to each other,” Johnson said. Thanks, I think this quote from the Aspen paper says it al Here is an article published on some of the evidence for the liquification scenario. The animals at the sight are accumulated over a long period of time, similar to other mire trap sights. Are you thinking that CO2 burping caused some kind of localized suffocation kill sight? The area the lake is in is not the kind of environment that these types of things typically occur in. The liquification is still happening at the same spot today so it is not to much of a leap to think that could have caused the trapping scenario seen at the sight. I just know what I was told, I have no insights into the upcoming publications or ongoing research.
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I would recommend keeping an eye out for it.
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The "expert" explained this find seemed similar, but was contrary to the belief of man's existance in North America at that time period. However, these finds were much more recent. One of the "experts" explained that he had found similar instances of parts of animals being submerged in water by weighing them down with rocks to better preserve the meat to eat later. It appears that it may have been weighed down with rocks to keep it submerged. One part of the show dicussed a partial mammoth or mastadon find (I don't remember which) that would be approximately 40,000 years old. When the earthquake ended, the soil then quickly solidified again, trapping the herd where they stood. During the earthquake, the soil went through a process of "liquification", allowing the mastadons to sink. One theory they were proposing for the massive find was that a herd of mastadons was near the bank of a lake when an earthquake occurred. I believe this show was about the same area that 32fordboy was referring to in the "Bison Skull" thread. It was about a discovery of mammoths, mastadons, bison and other remains found in Snowmass, CO. I saw a Nova (PBS) show last night entitled "Ice Age Death Trap".