“We were all pretty shocked and excited,” Johnson said. “We’ve enjoyed rockhounding in our family for years, but nobody has ever found anything like this.”“It’s definitely much cooler than the stuff I found as a kid,” she added.O’Grady was also enthusiastic about Jeremiah’s backyard discovery. Johnson had emailed him photos of the grooved tooth after another archaeologist in Oregon referred her to his office.
Source: An Oregon boy found a mammoth tooth in his grandmother’s backyard – The Washington Post