6 years ago, while starting a construction project, a family in Selah came across what appeared to be a huge bone...they contacted the Archaeology department at CWU and voila!...it turns out it was a giant humorous bone of a mammoth! Come to find out CWU has set up a mini museum and will do free tours of the dig site! PERFECT for my Ice Age Summer Camp AND it is only 30 miles from home!!!
My sweet students...they were OOBER excited-and they don't even grasp that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity! So cute.
The tour guide was very knowledgeable and explained stuff in a way the kids would appreciate it....short & sweet. :) No CRAZY terminology or weird archaeology lingo-the biggest word he used was "paleontology" which they ALL know because of camp!
This is the bone they found first. Huge huh? They believe that this particular mammoth is even 4 feet bigger than the typical wooly mammoth! HOLY SMOKES~
Here is the Mammoth bone next to the same bone of a cow!
He let each of the kids come up, hug the bone and compare the size of themselves to the size of it! They were AMAZED....
He took them into the actual grid dig-where CWU anthropology students were hard at work, unearthing even more bones!
See-there's one still stuck in the dirt...the kids gasped at that one :)
They were even able to take one of the sifters and hunt for bone fragments themselves....how COOL!
Sweet Cash with his face inside one of the neck vertebrae from the Mammoth....
It was a FANTASTIC experience! We'll have to go back and take Mike next time-this is the last summer the dig is open. :(
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