(BEAVER DAM) Our prehistoric ancestors may have been in Dodge County thousands of years earlier than once thought. The Persha Mammoth at the Dodge County Historical Museum underwent a carbon dating test late last year.
Director Kurt Sampson told Daily Dodge the test shows the bones are more than 16,000 years old. That’s important because marks on the bones suggest the mammoth may have been hunted or butchered.
“Now if it turns out that these are stone tool cut marks, that tells us that people were in Dodge County 16,000 years ago, which pushes back some of those dates by a couple thousand years,” said Sampson.
Sampson said talks are underway to let archeologists go back to the site near Mayville where the mammoth was found about 30 years ago in order to possibly find out more.
