Dartmouth researchers find that mammoths may have overlapped with early humans in Northeast A sculpture of woolly mammoths is seen in the Siberian town of Khanty-Mansiisk, east of Moscow, Russia, on June 28, 2008. According to a Dartmouth College study, the animals may have walked the landscape at the same time as the earliest humans in New England. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) Woolly mammoth bone Modified: 3/4/2021 9:43:13 PM HANOVER — In 1848, bones belonging to a woolly mammoth were found in Mount Holly, Vt., during construction of a railroad line in Vermont’s Green Mountains southeast of Rutland. More than 170 years after that discovery, Dartmouth researchers have found that the Mount Holly mammoth may have overlapped with the Northeast’s earliest human residents.