DORCHESTER COUNTY, Md. — A newly studied spearhead housed at the Dorchester County Historical Society is helping rewrite part of Maryland’s prehistoric past.
The artifact contains traces linked to mammoth blood, making it the first known evidence that humans hunted mammoths on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Museum staff say the discovery could lead to a deeper understanding of the region’s earliest inhabitants.
“There’s a greater presence and a confirmation that blood being linked to a specific region is going to open up many new avenues of research, exploration and expansion on our understanding of that time period,” said Jose Marcos Salaverria, Executive Director of the Dorchester County Historical Society…