Fun SK fact while I'm thinking about mastodon excavation-- I got to help excavate a mastodon when I was a wee baby (20 years old)! My youngest sister was part of a professional archaeology and paleontology club at the time (she's now a bioanthropology student) and I went along just to see it
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My youngest sister, twelve years old at the time, in a pit in the ground carefully sifting dirt for mastodon bits.