alligators

A 750-pound (340-kg) Mississippi alligator was killed in Eagle Lake Mississippi earlier this year. Inside it, butchers found “the shock of the year” - two ancient Native American artifacts, a 1,700-BC plummet stone, and a 6,000-BC atlatl dart point. According to a report in Clarion Ledger the “13 ft five-inch long [4.1-meter-long] alligator was killed in Eagle Lake in September by hunter John Hamilton. On his Facebook page after he killed the reptile Hamilton said the creature was “the hunt of a lifetime.” Now, Mississippi archaeologists are in total agreement with Hamilton after butchers recovered the ancient Native American atlatl dart point and the mysterious plummet stone in the Mississippi alligator's stomach. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"89796","attributes":{"alt":"The enormous head of the 750-pound (340-kg) Mississippi