Ice Age Death Trap
Scientists race to uncover a site in the Rockies packed with fossil mammoths and other extinct ice age beasts. Aired February 1, 2012 on PBS
- Posted 12.15.11
- NOVA
Program Description
In the Rocky Mountains, archeologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America.
Broadcast Credits
ICE AGE DEATH TRAP
- PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY
- Eleanor Grant
- ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
- Andrew Grimes
- EDITED BY
- Andrea Barrick
- DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
- David Linstrom
- SOUND RECORDIST
- Kevin Padden
- NARRATED BY
- Lance Lewman
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- Christos Moisides
Chris Tribble
Zane Edwards - ADDITIONAL SOUND
- CJ Johnson
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- Anne Tarrant
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- Nicole Hughes
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- Ben Schein
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- Patrice Shannon
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- Alison Kelley
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- Eric Dennis
- COLORIST
- Ted Snavely
- AUDIO MIX
- Steve Urban
- RESEARCHER
- Paulina Vaca
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- Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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Image
- (mammoth)
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Participants
- Daniel Fisher
- University of Michigan Evolutionary Biologist
- Kirk Johnson
- Denver Museum of Nature & Science
- Ian Miller
- Paleobotanist
- Eugene Schweig
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Joseph Sertich
- Vertebrate Paleontologist
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