Alaska Film Archives - UAF | Tourists with mammoth tooth, 1932 @alaskafilmarchives | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 16 hours ago.
Tourists exploring a working gold dredge in Interior Alaska in 1932 pause to marvel over the partial jawbone and tooth of an extinct woolly mammoth. The heavy tooth and bone had been unearthed from previously frozen ground by mining activities (B&W/Silent/16mm film). Woolly mammoths were about the same size as today's African elephants, and lived in northern Asia, throughout many parts of Europe, and in the northern part of North America. They survived primarily off of grasses, sedges and herbaceous plants, and were adapted to the cold climate conditions of the Pleistocene, or Ice Age. Most mammoths had died off by about 12,000 years ago, due to human hunting or climate change or a combination of both, but one isolated mammoth population in Alaska survived until roughly 4,000 years ago.
This clip is from AAF-733 from the Crawford collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
The Alaska Film Archives appreciates your support. Your donation in any amount will help us continue important preservation work. Please visit the “About” section of our YouTube channel to learn how you can help today. Thank you! For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
Tourists exploring a working gold dredge in Interior Alaska in 1932 pause to marvel over the partial jawbone and tooth of an extinct woolly mammoth. The heavy tooth and bone had been unearthed from previously frozen ground by mining activities (B&W/Silent/16mm film). Woolly mammoths were about the same size as today's African elephants, and lived in northern Asia, throughout many parts of Europe, and in the northern part of North America. They survived primarily off of grasses, sedges and herbaceous plants, and were adapted to the cold climate conditions of the Pleistocene, or Ice Age. Most mammoths had died off by about 12,000 years ago, due to human hunting or climate change or a combination of both, but one isolated mammoth population in Alaska survived until roughly 4,000 years ago.
This clip is from AAF-733 from the Crawford collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
The Alaska Film Archives appreciates your support. Your donation in any amount will help us continue important preservation work. Please visit the “About” section of our YouTube channel to learn how you can help today. Thank you! For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
