NOVA: Ice Age Death Trap on WXXI-TV

NOVA: Ice Age Death Trap on WXXI-TV

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 9:00pm

Pictured: Mastodon skeleton at the University of Michigan's Museum of Natural History.

Credit: Courtesy of WGBH

Visit a unique site packed with astonishingly preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons and other giant extinct beasts.

Racing against developers in the Rockies, archaeologists uncover a unique site rich with the bones of mammoths, mastodons and other giant extinct beasts, opening a window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in NOVA: Ice Age Death Trap airing Wednesday, February 1 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV/HD (DT21.1/cable 11/cable 1011).