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The Cooper Bison Kill Site is an archaeological site near Fort Supply in Harper County, Oklahoma, United States.Located along the Beaver River, it was explored in 1993 and 1994 and found to contain artifacts of the Folsom tradition, dated at c.10800 BCE to c. 10,200 BCE in calibrated radiocarbon years. [2]
The archaeological site located near the vicinity of Fort Supply, Oklahoma became known as the Cooper Bison Kill Site. [ 62 ] During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the North American bison was aggressively hunted by frontiersmen and ridgerunners destructively devastating the population of the North American bison.
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.
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That's not surprising since female bison weigh about 1,000 pounds and males can weigh up to 2,000. Not only that, but when these animals attack, they are often euthanized for the safety of visitors.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2), all land.. Fort Supply Reservoir is directly south; [5] the Hal & Fern Cooper Wildlife Management Area, covering 16,080 acres and administered by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, [6] is to the east.
Cooper Site may refer to: Cooper Bison Kill Site, Oklahoma. A prehistoric archaeological site of the Folsom tradition. Cooper Site (Lyme, Connecticut), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in New London County, Connecticut; Cooper Site (Onamia, Minnesota), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Mille Lacs County ...