{"id":194762,"date":"2024-08-18T19:24:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T00:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/13600-year-old-remarkably-intact-mastodon-skull-discovered-in-iowa"},"modified":"2024-08-18T19:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T00:24:25","slug":"13600-year-old-remarkably-intact-mastodon-skull-discovered-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/13600-year-old-remarkably-intact-mastodon-skull-discovered-in-iowa","title":{"rendered":"13,600-year-old remarkably intact mastodon skull discovered in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/13600-year-old-remarkably-intact-mastodon-skull-discovered-in-iowa2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an unexpected turn of events, a two-week archaeological dig unearthed a remarkably intact mastodon skull in a creek that might carry signs of human life too.<\/p>\n<p>Over twelve days, archaeologists unearthed several mastodon bones. However, the skull, being \u201cthe first-ever well-preserved\u201d artifact of its kind, makes it a significant find with potential connections to human history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really hoping to find evidence of human interaction with this creature \u2014 perhaps the projectile points and knives that were used to kill the animal and do initial butchering,\u201d John Doershuk, director and state archaeologist at the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA) said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unexpected turn of events, a two-week archaeological dig unearthed a remarkably intact mastodon skull in a creek that might carry signs of human life too. Over twelve days, archaeologists unearthed several mastodon bones. However, the skull, being \u201cthe first-ever well-preserved\u201d artifact of its kind, makes it a significant find with potential connections to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}