[Sacajaweau]

Driving animals somewhere else is nothing new. They may know how many bones are on site...What they don't know is how many critters LEFT the site for perhaps other markets.

Ya kinda have to picture the old west as an analogy.

And what's this treked thing. I'm sure some did but do you think everyone did?

Maybe it was an old "army" camp.

[gleeaikin]

“Ya kinda have to picture the old west as an analogy.”

In the early days of our own west, the trappers and Indians and the few other white people in the area would get together for a major feast, drunk, trading like horses and furs (and in Europe cattle), finding potential mates, etc. This kind of custom, I am sure, is many thousands of years old. This was in the period after the Lewis and Clark expedition and before the Gold Rush.