The curious case of ancient bear bones at a Mississippi dig site
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 09:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It’s not unusual to find animal bones like deer and fish at pre-contact Native American sites in the Lower Mississippi Valley. But what Penn archaeologist Megan Kassabaum wasn’t expecting to find were so many bones from black bears. “When we saw how much bear there was,” she says, “we just couldn’t ignore it.” Kassabaum has been conducting research in […]