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It contains the 10,000-year-old remains of up to 600 bison. [2] Open seasonally, the site features a visitor center with interpretive exhibits and views of the bones. Guided tours are available. [3] The Bison Trail to Toadstool Geologic Park is a 3-mile hike. Part of the site is protected by a building
The Olsen–Chubbuck Bison kill site is a Paleo-Indian site that dates to an estimated 8000–6500 B.C. and provides evidence for bison hunting and using a game drive system, long before the use of the bow and arrow or horses. [1] The site holds a bone bed of nearly 200 bison that were killed, butchered, and consumed by Paleo-Indian hunters.
Map of Wray in Yuma County, Colorado Republican River Drainage Basin (lower left) The Jones-Miller Bison Kill Site, located in northeast Colorado, was a Paleo-Indian site where Bison antiquus were killed using a game drive system and butchered. Hell Gap complex bones and tools artifacts at the site are carbon dated from about ca. 8000-8050 BC ...
In 1926, archaeologist Jesse Figgins from the Denver Museum (now the Denver Museum of Nature and Science) and Harold Cook arrived at the site to begin excavations.Figgins discovered a light, fluted projectile point buried between two of the bison's ribs, thus establishing a clear association of the point with the species of bison that had been extinct for approximately 10,000 years.
Map of the Trace. The Trace was created by millions of migrating bison that were numerous in the region from the Great Lakes to the Piedmont of North Carolina. [2] It was part of a greater buffalo migration route that extended from present-day Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky, through Bullitt's Lick, south of present-day Louisville, and across the Falls of the Ohio River to Indiana, then ...
One indication of how frequented the site was is the bone bed, which extends along the entire length of the cliff [15] [29] and is 13 feet (4.0 m) deep. [15] [21] An archeological estimate based on the number of bones at the site indicates that at least 6,000 bison died there. [19]
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Several bone beds containing bison and pronghorn remains have been found in the windblown and stream deposits of this stratum at the Landmark. A bison kill dating from the Early Archaic and a baking "oven" dating to the Middle Archaic have been discovered. This oven actually was a large oval pit that contained burned rock and ash. The absence ...