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MAMMOTH TUSK
EXHIBIT A section of a
Mammoth's tusk from the collection of Bogalusa Attorney Ben Miller, is now on display in the Indian Culture Museum.
Although the specific origin of this particular section of tusk is not
exactly known, it is most likely from the Woolly Mammoth, or Mammuthus Primigenius, which is
probably the most recognized/symbolic species of the Mammoth. It is known
that the Mammoth did migrate to the North America Continent, via the Siberian
Land Bridge about one and a half million years ago, and the range of the
Mammoth has been evidenced all the way to South America. Hence, the Columbian
Mammoth. The evolution of the
Woolly Mammoth started about 100,000 years ago. They are thought to have
started to become extinct about 8,000 years ago. The current Asian
and African Elephant are evolved from the Mammoth. They are all, or were, mammals and belong to a species called, Proboscideaus. Ben Miller was noted
throughout the country for his various collections, and traded artifacts with
collectors from all over the world. In exciting news A mammoth skeleton
was recently excavated on the Angola (LA) State Prison site. http://www.intersurf.com/~chalcedony/mastodon1.html
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