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Artifact I.D. Day
- Location: ISM Dickson Mounds Museum, Lewistown
- Date: Sunday, February 25, 2007, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Throughout the day Dickson Mounds staff archaeologists will be on hand to identify public artifact collections and guest geologists from the Lincoln Orbit Earth Science Society will identify fossil and rock collections. Dr. Jeffrey Saunders, Curator of Geology for the Illinois State Museum will present: "Tales Told by Elephants Found in Illinois" at 3:00 p.m. Dr. Saunders will review scientific debate over mammoth species that occupied late Pleistocene landscapes in Illinois, and how recent mammoth discoveries in Logan and Calhoun county help to bring the Illinois mammoth record into clearer focus.
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