Word: mastodonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decade of digging, Dillehay's team found an unparalleled array of artifacts, including not only stone tools and animal bones but also chunks of mastodon meat, wild potatoes, and seaweed and other plants that must have been imported from the Pacific coast, some 40 miles away. The archaeologists discovered fire pits surrounded by burned wood chips, wooden lances with hardened tips, wooden basins containing seeds, grindstones -- and a human footprint. The foundation of a wishbone-shaped structure held the remains of more than 20 types of medicinal plants, some of which bore marks that may be the imprints of human...
...awry, Thomas Geoghegan wanted to get away from it all. Joining the French Foreign Legion was out, but a roommate talked him into volunteering as an observer at a dissident Mine Workers election. That was in 1972, and the beginning of Geoghegan's love affair with a "dumb, stupid, mastodon of a thing," a creature that shambles around "with half its brain gone." The object of his passion: organized labor...