
Daniel Cearley measuring the Columbian mammoth’s left upper arm bone at UC Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology repository in preparation for loaning the bones. (Photo courtesy: Carol Edson and Dan Cearley)
Nov. 9, 2009, was a normal day of construction at Las Positas campus.
Until metal hit bone.
Off of Loop Road on the Nature Valley Trail, at the west side of campus, a construction team worked to create a swale. This shallow…