Director of the Site

ID: 779 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University

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Calvin Smith, director of the Strecker Museum from 1984 to 2003, took charge of much of the excavation work until a grant from the Cooper Foundation provided the funds for a chief excavator for the Waco Mammoth Site.

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Waco Mammoth National Monument

By Amanda Sawyer

This important archaeological find containing the remains of twenty-five Columbian mammoths lies just on the outskirts of the city of Waco. Paul Barron and Eddie Bufkin discovered the site in 1978 while hiking along a dry seasonal creek bed between…