Is it?
Unlike Indiana Jones of Lost
Ark and Temple of Doom film fiction,
most real archeologists are a very
cautious lot.
But the big bones uncovered by Baylor
University just five miles from Waco
today had the diggers bubbling with both
pride and speculation.
The find, which started six years ago
as on Earth, 11 mammoth skeletons
today with the chance for more,
all from one 30 by 12 foot
hole in the ground.
It could be the largest, oldest grouping
in North America.
But when we have one more animal
found, we can make that statement.
In the meantime, the Baylor archeologists
believe the find indicates an entire
herd of prehistoric elephants was
killed by human hunters at the site,
which means men and women were hanging
around Waco seventeen thousand
five hundred years ago.
So we're at the very young dawn, the very
threshold of human occupation in
the new world, which may not be as
exciting for the average person as the
Indiana Jones Act, but the Baylor
folks are pretty pleased with it and will
continue digging for more conclusive
proof and more.
Mammoth's Jack Helsel, Channel
5 News tonight.