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The Inglewood Mammoth (Maryland) and Others Like It (2015)
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The Inglewood mammoth site near Largo, Maryland, radiocarbon dated in 1982 to 20,000 rcybp, shares some features with other mammoths in North America and Mexico. It had no lithics associated with the bones, and some of the elements had been fragmented. Over 25 years ago I interpreted the bone-breakage as recently done by heavy equipment, but another researcher now interprets it as done by humans in antiquity. I provide a first look at the site’s bone maps, sediment profiles, and other essential...