The last day at the dig site in Snowmass Village I was out recording sound for a national story and the three remaining scientists were determined to find something so I could get the sound of their discovery on tape.
They were in a depresseion in the mud about ten feet in diamter and the nigh before the Cheif Curator for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Kirk Johnson had unearthed ten bones while he dug furiously at sunset.
The three men shoveled with vigor and told jokes in between slamming into rocks, 45, 000 year old pieces of wood adn sand. One even broke his shovel. But with five minutes to spare Johnson had to get to the Snowmass Village town council meeting, the crew hit bone, sort of. They uncovered a Mastodon tooth, a molar to be exact. Johnson took it to the Snommass Village town council meeting as a last treasure to behold before the dig site closed for the winter. I call that tooth on demand.
Also, listen here for what sort of prehistoric delectable Ian Miller, the museum's paleontologist tasted in the field when I asked him if he tasted any Mastodon meat.
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