First, I would like to thank the University of Nebraska Museum at Lincoln, for permitting volunteers to excavate at the Campbell site.
Secondly, the person in charge of operations was the most pleasant person I've ever met. Here, George Corner enters the scene. George is a paleontologist and head of the Research and Collections department at the state museum in Lincoln.
George is very well suited for the role he played at the site. He is very easy going, and nothing get him too excited. He is always available to help the "amateur" diggers, and always helped with identification on any fossil brought to him.
I had a couple experiences with George and the identification of fossils I had found in the past.
I had found a large cervical vertebra in a sand pit north of Franklin, Nebraska. I took this along one morning to see if George could name the animal this bone belonged to. When walking up to George, I asked his if the bone was too large to be from a horse, and he said "Yep, that's a Pleistocene camel, Titanotylopus. Either the 3rd, 4th or 5th vertebra. This bone has severe damage due to passing through the gravel pump. This is the great thing about George, fossil knowledge in abundance.
I can't say enough about the qualifications of George. He certainly takes his job seriously and the museum couldn't have picked a better person to man the shovels and trowels in Campbell. From removing overburden to mixing plaster to just the right consistency--George can't be beat.
Now that the dig is over, the thing I'll miss most is the companionship of George Corner. I'll always remember the fun (hot fun sometimes) we had at the dig.
This site will host about thirty photographs, and represents seven days of digging and about fifty hours in the hot sun!
I hope you will enjoy the site.
