Lost Bones
Marcus BrandelWelcome to *Lost Bones*, where I explore the hidden Pleistocene faunal record of the Midwestern United States. My mission is to rediscover and document Ice Age mammals preserved in local museums and county historical society collections across the state.
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Yes, There are Cretaceous Rocks in Minnesota
With geology and paleontology field seasons ramping up and crews heading back into the field in early May, I’m stepping a bit outside my usual Pleistocene posts. Occasionally, my volunteer research can span more than Ice Age Minnesota; I ha...
Lost Bones #4 Update — Part 2
Progress
Last month I found myself back on the road with Dr. Alex Hastings from the Science Museum of Minnesota, following the plan we’d mapped out months earlier — visiting the historical societies in Crow Wing, Goodhue, and Wright counti...
Your German Shepard the Geoarchaeologist
I had the privilege of attending Paul S. Martin’s outstanding lecture at the Geological Society of America (GSA) triple-joint meeting in Memphis in early March. It wasn’t a typical geology talk, but because of some upcoming archaeological w...
Join my new subscriber chat
Today I’m announcing a new addition to my Substack publication: the Lost Bones subscriber chat.
This will be a conversation space exclusively for subscribers—something like a group chat or live hangout. I’ll share questions, updates, and c...
Lost Bones #5: (From the Ashes a Fire Shall be Woken)
In April 1967, Burgess Construction employee Ivan Brouwer, a dragline operator working along a creek during the construction of Minnesota’s Interstate Highway 94 (I-94) just east of the city of Melrose Minnesota, uncovered a mass of jumbled...
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