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The Bone Bed is novel by Patricia Cornwell. It was published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 2012. The book is a continuation of Cornwell's popular Kay Scarpetta series.
The site holds a bone bed of nearly 200 bison that were killed, butchered, and consumed by Paleo-Indian hunters. The site is located 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Kit Carson, Colorado. The site was named after archaeologists, Sigurd Olsen and Gerald Chubbuck, who discovered the bone bed in 1957.
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In 1957, paleontologist Alan J. Charig described many more fossils from the bone beds in his Ph.D. thesis for the University of Cambridge. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Charig renamed the youngest of Stockley's units in 1963, calling unit K6 the Kawinga Formation, K7 the Kingori Sandstones, and K8 the Manda Formation.
A similar bone bed has been traced on the same geological horizon in Brunswick, Hanover , in Franconia and in Tübingen (Germany). [2] [3] A bone bed has also been observed at the base of the Carboniferous limestone series, in certain parts of the south-west of England. [1]
Bill Hudson and Albert Meng were local ranchers who are credited [4] [5] with discovering the bonebed in 1954 while digging for a pond. Originally excavated by Dr. Larry Agenbroad in the 1970s, the dig was over 400 square meters and was considered the largest Alberta Culture bison kill site ever discovered.
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Mastodon State Historic Site is a publicly owned, 431-acre (174 ha) archaeological and paleontological site with recreational features in Imperial, Missouri, maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, preserving the Kimmswick Bone Bed. [5] Bones of mastodons and other now-extinct animals were first found here in the early 19th ...