Pratt mammoth | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Sat, 01 May 2010 23:30:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Mapping the Pratt Mammoth excavation using GPS and basic surveying technology https://boneblogger.com/mapping-the-pratt-mammoth-excavation-using-gps-and-basic-surveying-technology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mapping-the-pratt-mammoth-excavation-using-gps-and-basic-surveying-technology Sat, 01 May 2010 19:54:25 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1206 The discovery of a partial mammoth skeleton in 1999, and its subsequent excavation in 2000, provided an opportunity to implement several innovations in the on-site mapping of the excavation and relating the excavation to real-world coordinate systems. What follows is a basic primer on what we did. The mammoth specimen was found during the excavation […]

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