AIRASSAULT
PMA Member
.........10,000 years ago, and here's the proof. Thought some of you might find this interesting. I was a little over 1 year old when back in July of 1985, my uncle, Mike, stumbled across what he thought was a strange looking "stick" protruding through a wash-out composed of blue-clay. He started to dig around it with his pocket knife and soon noticed that it was a piece of bone. He called my dad and the two of them excavated a Caribou Shed Antler. Mike didn't really know what to do with it, so, he took it to one of his professors at the time at Muscatine Community College. They then pointed him in the direction of a Paleontologist, Dr. Holmes Semken, at the University of Iowa. He ended up donating it to the University and it now resides in the Repository in the Geology building. I had known about this antler for a long time, and since I'm a full time student at the U of Iowa, I decided I would try to see if I could find someone to talk to about getting to see the antler for myself. Today, I finally was able to make contact with a lady in charge of the Repository and she pulled out the antler and let me take some photos of it. Sorry, no ATL's. The pics are kindof blurry because I only had my cell phone to take them with. I still live on our family farm where this was found. What do you think would be the odds of matching it up with the other side?:grin:.... Some dang pre-historic squirrel probably ate it up already!
The Card reads: Name: Caribou Antler / Mike Scott, Wilton, Iowa 7/85
The Card reads: Name: Caribou Antler / Mike Scott, Wilton, Iowa 7/85