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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.
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 ...
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Mile Canyon bison jump site Wahkpa Chu'gn buffalo jump in Montana.. Sites of interest range from Alberta to Texas, including: Head-Smashed-In, Bonfire Shelter, Ulm Pishkun, Madison Buffalo Jump, Dry Island, Glenrock, Big Goose Creek, Cibolo Creek, Vore, [6] Wahkpa Chu'gn (also includes Too Close for Comfort archaeological site), [7] Olsen-Chubbuck Bison Kill Site, and Camp Disappointment of ...
In 1952, Ed Lehner discovered extinct mammoth bone fragments on his ranch, at the locality now known as the Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site. He notified the Arizona State Museum, and a summer of heavy rains in 1955 exposed more bones. Excavations, led by William W. Wasley and Emil Haury, took place in 1955–56, and again in 1974–75.
Archeological investigations in the 1970s uncovered bones and projectile points to a depth of 15 feet (4.6 m). About ten tons of bones were removed from the site. [2] About five percent of the site has been excavated, and the pit is estimated to contain the remains of 20,000 buffalo. [3] Bison bones in an excavation in the bottom of the buffalo ...
Bonfire Shelter is an archaeological site located in a southwest Texas rock shelter, near Langtry, Texas.This archaeological site contains evidence of mass American buffalo hunts, a phenomenon that is usually associated with the Great Plains hundreds of miles to the north.