Schaefer Mammoth Site - Kenosha, WI
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member onfire4jesus
N 42° 38.456 W 087° 59.864
16T E 418204 N 4721424
This marker is located a short way down a private drive at 15620 12th Street in Kenosha, WI.
Waymark Code: WM4M2K
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 09/04/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member The Cheeseheads
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"SCHAEFER
MAMMOTH SITE
Over 12,000 years ago, Native Americans slaughtered a Northern Woolly Mammoth in a small lake near this site. Between 1992-93, the Kenosha Public Museum excavated the site and concluded that the woolly mammoth stood at 11 feet and weighed 14,000 pounds or 7 tons. This mammoth, or Ice Age elephant, lived among spruce trees and steppe-like vegetation during the Pleistocene glacial epoch. The Schaefer Mammoth Site is one of the oldest mammoth discoveries in the New World, definitively proving that people hunted mammoth east of the Mississippi River.
ERECTED 1999"
County: Kenosha

Location: Other

MarkerID: 420
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