Article in the Washington Post: Was the Virginia mastodon really there, or was this a big mistake? (it wasn’t a mistake!) Credit is given to the volunteers from the Historic Rivers Chapter.
And another article, Rare find: Mastodon bones unearthed in Yorktown, in the Virginian Pilot.
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Gerald Johnson, at the site of the mastodon dig. Members of the Historic Rivers Chapter of the Virginia Master Naturalists helped him dig the bones.