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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m looking for some advice on conserving waterlogged mammoth bones as they are excavated. Our university museum is involved in the excavation of at least two mammoths and the bones and tusks are being brought to their lab for safe-keeping,
but they don’t have a preparator or conservator experienced in dealing with this material. The only advice I have been able to give is to keep the material damp, in plaster jackets where applicable, covered by damp towels to make sure it doesn’t dry out and
fall apart. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d be very interested to hear from anyone with experience of conserving and preparing mammoth bones from a muddy excavation site.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tiffany <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tiffany Adrain<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Collections Manager, Paleontology Repository<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor, Museum Studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Geoscience<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The University of Iowa<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">121 Trowbridge Hall<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Iowa City, IA 52242<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">phone: 319 335 1822<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">fax: 319 335 1821<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">website: <a href="http://geoscience.clas.uiowa.edu/paleo/">http://geoscience.clas.uiowa.edu/paleo/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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