UP Mammoth Kill site
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Irwin-Williams, Cynthia
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content: Cynthia Irwin-Williams papers
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content: Cynthia Irwin-Williams papers / Series 7: Photographs and Artwork / Fieldwork
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content: 1960-1961
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content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: The Union Pacific (UP) Mammoth Kill site is located in Carbon county, Wyoming. The mammoth skeleton on the site was excavated between 1960 and 1961 by Irwin-Williams, Henry Irwin, and George Agogino on behalf of Harvard University and the University of Wyoming with support from the National Goegraphic Society. C. Vance Haynes Jr. consulted on the dig and The University of Wyoming Archaeological Repository holds his field notes and photographs from the excavation.