Document Type

Thesis

Date of Degree Completion

Spring 2008

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science

Department

Anthropology and Museum Studies

Committee Chair

Dr. Lisa Ely, Department of Geology

Second Committee Member

Dr. Steve Hackenberger, Department of Anthropology

Third Committee Member

Dr. Andrew A. Piacsek, Science Honors Research Program

Fourth Committee Member

Bax R. Barton, M.S., Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington

Abstract

In August of 1967 remains of a mammoth were discovered in a peat bog in Pratum, a small farming community near Salem, Oregon. Two molars were found in conjunction with a tusk, femur, and partial pelvis. While mammoths finds are fairly common in the area, detailed paleontological analysis has rarely been attempted on such finds. The goals of this project are to analyze the Pratum mammoth in terms of the geographic and geologic context of the find, conduct stable isotope biochemical analyses of the bones and tusk, and morphometric analysis of the remains. Morphometric analysis of the find has determined that the animal was a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) approximately 22±3 years of age at death. AMS radiocarbon dating has revealed that the animal died 12.023±7714C years ago.

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