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Luminescence dating pushes age of South Dakota's Mammoth Site back by more than 100,000 years
Deep within an ancient sinkhole lie the remains of dozens of mammoths, prehistoric wanderers who waded into the warm springs to their deaths. These deaths had long been accepted as having occurred roughly 26,000 years ago, but new dates published in the journ…
Deep within an ancient sinkhole lie the remains of dozens of mammoths, prehistoric wanderers who waded into the warm springs to their deaths.
These deaths had long been accepted as having occurred ro…
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