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Posted: 6:13 AM Jul 9, 2008
Woolly Mammoths Once in Wisconsin
Kenosha County man's acreage once had woolly mammoths tramping around
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John Hebior can picture what it must have looked like when woolly mammoths tramped across his acreage in Kenosha County thousands of years ago.
Now others can get a better idea of that vision.
The mammoth dug up on his rural property more than a decade ago has been recreated for a display at the Milwaukee Public Museum. The skeleton is believed to date back more than 14,000 years.
Marks on the bones suggest human tools were used to scrape meat off, and that means there apparently were people in the Upper Midwest at least 1,000 years earlier than scientists previously believed.
The museum mammoth is made from fiberglass replicas of the actual bones, which are too fragile for display.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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