Archaeologists make incredible discovery of 13,600-year-old treasure

Mastodon skull unearthed by University of Iowa archaeologistsUniversity of Iowa /TMX

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00:00I was contacted by a private individual here in Wayne County that he had become

00:13aware that a very large bone had been found in this drainage. So we're looking

00:18at the face of the animal. Trump would have come out of there. We have one tusk

00:23right in front of Veronica. Mastodons have been around for hundreds of

00:26thousands of years, millions, and only overlap of humans in the very last

00:31couple thousand years. We dug down through the sand layer that you can see

00:34into this material below, which preserves vegetation. And that vegetation we were

00:39able to then get a radiocarbon date on that corrected comes out to 13,600 years

00:45ago.