Landscapes of South Dakota
Mammoth Site
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The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs offers a glimpse or the area before explorers arrived.
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Landscapes of South Dakota
Mammoth Site
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Stories revealing and celebrating the people and unique character of South Dakota.
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(gentle upbeat music) - [Announcer] "Landscapes of South Dakota," the people, places, and experiences that make us and our state unique.
Layers of limestone throughout the Black Hills account for a spectacular cave system and a prehistoric sinkhole near present-day Hot Springs.
26,000 years ago, woolly and Columbian mammoths, short-faced bear, and other ice-aged versions of camel, coyote, and llama visited the watery shallow, but steep walls and loose sediment trapped them.
Silt, in time, covered the shallow until 1974.
A construction project unearthed their dried bones.
The discovery of the Mammoth site in Hot Springs has yielded the world's largest concentration of mammoths for archeological study.
It's an interactive field trip for students and another unique stop for Black Hills visitors.
The Hot Springs Mammoth Site continues to reveal long-buried secrets of the past from just beneath the landscapes of South Dakota.
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