Prehistoric - Dataw Historic Foundation https://www.datawhistory.org Fostering the rich history of Dataw Island, South Carolina Thu, 20 Jun 2024 20:32:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.datawhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-Dataw-Historic-Foundation-logo-512x406-1-32x32.png Prehistoric - Dataw Historic Foundation https://www.datawhistory.org 32 32 St. Helena Island’s Prehistoric Secrets: Mastodons https://www.datawhistory.org/dataw-island-history/st-helena-islands-prehistoric-secrets-mastodons/ Sat, 27 May 2023 15:21:58 +0000 https://www.datawhistory.org/?p=7305 The DHF is proud that we have artifacts found on Datha Island in the early ALCOA days that date back thousands of years. For example, in the display on the southwest wall of the History & Learning Center is a Paleo Indian Point that dates to 10,000 B.C. However, many have explored our area over the centuries. I recently learned from a young lady in Massachusetts that Charles Upham Shepard found an older and much larger item on St Helena Island in the 1800s; an American mastodon (Mammoth americanum) from the late Pleistocene era! This intact skeleton, found next door, pushes back our knowledge of this area by several thousand years, to at least 12,000 B.C.

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