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	In the summer of 2000, Sternberg Museum and FHSU's Department of Teacher Education conducted a workshop on mammoths. Participants were required to spend time at the excavation site of a mammoth discovered at the Pratt Airport. A good time was had by all!

	A Pratt School teacher works around vertebrae of a mammoth. The tusk of the beast is encased in plaster off to the right side of the picture.

	Bones of the mammoth are exposed slowly by teacher and volunteer workers. Ribs, vertebrae, and the tusk can be seen here.

	Another view of the excavation site showing the tusk (part had been removed) and a large bundle of plaster in the middle back containing the lower jaw.



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