Following on the rich preceding chapter, Smith revisits the Guest Mammoth site (8MR130). In 1973, Dr. Charles Hoffman planned and executed a comprehensive and precise underwater investigation at the Guest Mammoth site, uncovering the remains of three juvenile Columbian Mammoths in direct association with six flakes, a small projectile point and micro-debitage. As Smith details, because of the then-archaeological establishment’s stance regarding the Paleoindian period and, more specifically, that period in the American Southeast, Hoffman’s results were never accepted by the scientific community. This chapter tells the story of the origination of translating geologic and archaeological techniques to underwater First Americans sites. Following a thorough reprise of Hoffman’s work, Smith details his own encounter with the Guest Mammoth site, in 2014, which entailed a year’s frustrating effort before their relocation to the 1973 excavation block. In 2015 and 2017, Smith returned to the site. He conducted his first side-scan sonar survey in 2015. In 2017, he excavated again, finding six mammoth bones associated with lithics that he included in a possible Clovis or Clovis-like point.
Mosaic evolution of prepropancreatic polypeptide. II. Structural conservation and divergence in pancreatic polypeptide gene.
