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Founding Monsters: Founding Fathers Quest for Mammoths and Mastodons

  • 08 Jan 2024
  • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Online via Zoom

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BONUS PRESENTATION FOR MAMMOTH SPEAKER SERIES

In addition to being Founding Fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and others shared a fascination for mammoths and mastodons. In this special bonus presentation, Dr. Bernard Means from Virginia Commonwealth University will share another side of the founding fathers, fossil collectors. Learn how the quest for mammoth bones was part of a feud between France and the U.S., how Washington searched for fossils during pauses in the Revolutionary War, and why a mammoth was on the list of animals Lewis and Clark were instructed to find.

Dr. Bernard Means is an archaeologist who teaches in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is also the Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory, where he leads a team of students to 3D scan and 3D print fossils, archaeological discoveries, and historical items for teaching, research, and public outreach.
This presentation is part of The Mammoth Speaker Series, one of many programs designed to help educate, excite and engage with the Mammoth Exhibition coming to the Natural History Society of Maryland this fall. The ticket price gives you access to all of 5 now 6  talks – not just this one. If you missed any of the talks, special access will be given to view past presentations.
  • 7PM THURSDAY – OCTOBER 5 – Climate Fluctuations of the Pleistocene, Dr. Hali Kilbourne, Associate Research Professor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
  • 10AM SATURDAY – OCTOBER 14 – The Natural History of the Mammoth NOTE: Breakfast with a Mammoth with Dr. Adrian Lister, Merit Researcher, Natural History Museum, London
  • 7PM TUESDAY – NOVEMBER 14 – The Extinction of Mammoths with Dr. Chris Widga, Director, EMS Museum & Art Gallery, Penn State University
  • 7PM TUESDAY – NOVEMBER 28 – Mammoths and Mastodons of Maryland with Ralph Eshelman, Associate Researcher Calvert Marine Museum
  • 7PM TUESDAY – DECEMBER 12 – Mammoths and Humans with Dr. Todd Surovell, Director of the George C. Frison Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
  • 7PM MONDAY – JANUARY 8 – Founding Monsters

NOTE: Speaker Series tickets are one of the Thank You Gifts for donating to the Mammoth GoFnndMe Campaign – CLICK HERE: