Please allow extra time for downloading large images. Aerial photograph of excavation, looking southeast. State Route 75 is along bottom, Fulkerson Road excavation, center. Photo by George Hornal, TN Department of Transportation . Excavations to see and sample the layered clays, May 31, the day the first bones were found.
Reporters swarm the site after newspaper stories appear.
Among many others are Nick Fielder, Tennessee Division of Archaeology, far left, and Mike Clark, UT Knoxville, speaking to reporters. Sampling for paleomagnetic dating. Clays in pit are light gray, and contain leaf imprints, but no bones or gravels. Samplers include Mike Clark, UT Knoxville, and Ira Sasowsky, U of Akron. Larry Bolt Tenn. Dept of Transportation, and Marta Adams, UT Knoxville.