Wellgoodmornin

Wellgoodmornin t1_j9mvgem wrote

Reply to comment by InevitableBohemian in The First Fossil Finders in North America Were Enslaved and Indigenous People by nemo_to_zero

I will admit it's more interesting than i originally thought. I stopped reading after they seemed to move on from the elephant tooth to Lewis and Clark because I wanted to know more about the elephant tooth and it annoyed me. I didn't realize they circle back to it.

*mammoth tooth

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Wellgoodmornin t1_j9mjlt1 wrote

Reply to comment by jcrave in The First Fossil Finders in North America Were Enslaved and Indigenous People by nemo_to_zero

But that's pretty much par for the course for things like that, right? Everyone knows Lord Carnarvon found King Tuts tomb but no one knows who the guys digging were. Not that it should be that way it just is.

It would be really interesting if they had a journal or something from one of the slaves as unlikely as that would be, but this is essentially "People used slaves to dig holes in 18th century America" which is pretty expected.

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