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September 8, 2022

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument/Kurt Repanshek

The two buttes in this photo stand in Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in western Nebraska, and were the focal points of fossil excavations there in the early 1900s.

The butte on the right is Carnegie Hill, and was the focus of excavations that began in 1904 and continued until 1923. The hill took its name from the work started in 1904 by Olaf Peterson, who hailed from from Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Professor Erwin Barbour, from the University of Nebraska, began excavations at University Hill the following year.

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