Preliminary Post-Cranial Metric Analysis Of Mammoths From The Hot Springs Mammoth Site, South Dakota

Authors

Barbara Lee Dutrow, Chadron State College

Date of this Version

1977

Document Type

Article

Citation

Published in Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Science, Volume 4 (1977).

Comments

Copyright 1977 by the Authors; used by permission of the NAS

Abstract

Salvage investigations of a Karst depression containing more than nine Late Pleistocene mammoth were conducted during approximately twenty field days in the summers of 1974 and 1975. The deposit contains a local death assemblage of a mammoth population. A post-cranial metric analysis has been conducted on the fossil elephant remains.