PREHISTORIC WORLDS: Backyard Discoveries

"Prehistoric Worlds - Backyard Discoveries" portrays amazing stories of how amateurs of all ages have uncovered some of the most archaeologically significant finds of our time BRINGS MAMMOTH FINDS TO LIGHT, PORTRAYS AMAZING STORIES OF AMATEUR FINDS, and highlights the incredible saga of the Jarkov mammoth.

In October 1999, the world watched, spellbound, as a team of scientists in a location 477 miles north of the Arctic Circle chiseled out a 23-ton block of permafrost that contained the remains of a 20,000-year-old woolly mammoth. The Jarkovs, members of Siberia's indigenous people, the Dolgans, had found the creature's exposed tusks - the tip of the iceberg, so to speak - virtually in their own back yard. Although many who live in warmer climes might never expect to discover such finds in their own neighborhoods, an exciting new exhibit shows how many people have done just that.

Content Collaborator and Producer:
Discovery Channel and Discovery Science Channel

Now Showing:
Exhibit is retired.

Past Venues:
Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts
South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina
SCITrek, Atlanta, Georgia
The Tropicana, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Minnetrista Cultural Center, Muncie, Indiana
Discovery Science Place, Tyler, Texas
Nauticus National Maritime Aquarium, Norfolk, Virginia
Museum of Idaho, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Space Center of Houston, Houston, Texas

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Call Christi Klingelhefer at 210-599-0045.