Florida Fossil Hunter Gets Credit For Big Find

Image 1-“James Kennedy, an amateur collector, found this fossilized bone with a mammoth or mastodon engraving in Vero Beach, Fla. It has been identified as one of the oldest pieces of prehistoric art in the Western Hemisphere”

Image 2- “Part of the reason archaeologists are cautious to accept the Florida find is because they’ve been deceived by forged mammoth carvings before.”

Image 3-“ Amateur collector James Kennedy with some of the fossils he’s collected in Florida. Kennedy found the carved bone four or five years ago, but didn’t notice the carving until a few years later when he cleaned it.”