Global InformationBoaz mastodon and Anderson Mills mastodon information
The Boaz mastodon is the skeleton of a mastodon found near Boaz, Wisconsin, USA, in 1897. A fluted quartzite spear point found near the Boaz mastodon suggests that humans hunted mastodons in southwestern Wisconsin. It is currently on display at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum.
Although the mastodon on display at the Geology Museum has long been presented as a complete individual, it was uncovered in 2015 that two bones from the Boaz mastodon were combined with many bones from a different individual, the Anderson Mills mastodon, to form a composite skeleton.[1]
- ^ Eaton, Carolyn; Slaughter, Richard. "Rediscovering the Anderson Mills Mastodon: a 19th Century Find from Grant County, Wisconsin". Abstracts with Programs. 47 (5). Geological Society of America: 71.