Sonoma - A Serengeti Plain

"It was a California Serengeti," Parkman said, "only our animals were even more diverse than the Serengeti's."  In 1972, the tusk, lower jaw and tooth of a Columbian mammoth was discovered at nearby Bodega Head. Mammoth and mastodon teeth had been found previously in the area. Parkman will unearth Sonoma during the late Pleistocene, the very end of the last Ice Age, when Sonoma resembled something significantly larger than the Serengeti Plains.

Speaker: Breck Parkman