Präriemammut
The site was discovered in 1978 by Paul Barron and Eddie Bufkin, who were searching for arrowheads and fossils near the Bosque River. The men found a large bone and took it to the Strecker Museum at Baylor University for analysis. Once the bone was identified as Columbian mammoth, the museum staff organized a formal dig at the site. Between 1978 and 1990. In 1979 Sr. George F. Naryshkin (then an undergraduate at Baylor) began work on his -year excavation and study of the site.