Manis Mastodon site

Manis Mastodon site
Manis Mastodon site is located in Washington (state)
Manis Mastodon site
Nearest citySequim, Washington
Coordinates48°03′16″N 123°06′54″W / 48.05444°N 123.11500°W / 48.05444; -123.11500
NRHP reference No.78002736 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 21, 1978

The Manis Mastodon site is a 2-acre (1 ha) archaeological site on the Olympic Peninsula near Sequim, Washington, United States, discovered in 1977. During the 1977-78[2] excavation, the remains of an American mastodon were recovered with a 13,800-year-old projectile point[3] made of the bone from a different mastodon embedded in its rib. The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ Gustafson, Carl E.; Gilbow, Delbert W.; Daugherty, Richard D. (1979). "The Manis Mastodon Site: Early Man on the Olympic Peninsula". Canadian Journal of Archaeology (3): 157–164. ISSN 0705-2006. JSTOR 41102203.
  3. ^ Waters, Michael R.; Stafford, Thomas W.; McDonald, H. Gregory; Gustafson, Carl; Rasmussen, Morten; Cappellini, Enrico; Olsen, Jesper V.; Szklarczyk, Damian; Jensen, Lars Juhl (October 21, 2011). "Pre-Clovis Mastodon Hunting 13,800 Years Ago at the Manis Site, Washington". Science. 334 (6054): 351–353. Bibcode:2011Sci...334..351W. doi:10.1126/science.1207663. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 22021854. S2CID 26346378.