Detail View: Image Archives: Trigonias Quarry and Camp
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File Name:
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00-2100A(B).jpg
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catalog number:
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00-2100A
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collection:
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Excavation, General
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title:
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Trigonias Quarry and Camp
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creator:
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Harvey C. Markman
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creator type:
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photographer
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creator:
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Stefanie A. Derkatsch
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creator type:
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scanning technician and creator of digital collection
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description:
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Typed label glued to an original print mount by Museum staff. The text recounts the "The Fence Post Incident," a false story of how the Trigonias quarry was discovered. In this story, the dig was discovered after a fragment of bone was uncovered by a rancher who had been digging holes for fence posts. This false story circulated in a number of publications without challenge until the Museum's Annual Report of 1942 printed a more realistic account of how the rich deposit of bones was discovered by Philip Reinheimer, H.D. Boyes, Frank Howland and Harvey Markman in 1920. The discovery would prove to be an extraordinarily rich deposit of prehistoric bones, yielding at least three complete Trigonias skeletons as well as at least thirty-seven skulls, fifty-nine pairs of mandibles, eight pelvic girdles, eight trays of vertebrae, several complete sets of ribs, and numerous limb bones. The bones discovered were a variety of prehistoric rhinoceroses and pigs. Duplicate fossils were used in exchange with various institutions across the country including The Field Museum and Harvard University.
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date:
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1920
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date type:
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date of photograph
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location:
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USA, Colorado, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
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modified:
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yes, shadow, highlights, brightness and contrast adgusted using Photoshop CS5
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format:
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image/jpg
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file size:
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1.46 MB
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source:
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7.68 X 9.01 black and white fiber based paper mounted on board, scanned with Epson Exprssion 10000XL at 350dpi, 24bit color
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rights:
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use with permission Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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