The newly found feature of butchered bones, named Jake Bluff East, is the fourth -- and historically most recent -- Paleoindian bison-hunting site to be found along this stretch of the Beaver River. (Map courtesy Carlson et al., PaleoAmerica)
The newly found feature of butchered bones, named Jake Bluff East, is the fourth -- and historically most recent -- Paleoindian bison-hunting site to be found along this stretch of the Beaver River. (Map courtesy Carlson et al., PaleoAmerica)
Very cool. I grew up in eastern Oklahoma and always wanted to explore the panhandle areas more.
I would think an 11,500 year old bison would be pretty tough. And hard to butcher.
Thanks for posting. Interesting.
At 11,500 years this is the oldest bison ever!
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When I lived in Western Kansas, I made it down to the Oklahoma Panhandle a couple of times.
It was the roughest country I ever remember seeing. For some reason, I liked it. If there were any way I could have made a living there, I probably would have moved.
My mother went to high school in Leedey, OK, a little to the southwest of that area. They were called the Leedey Bison.
So how many 11,500 year old bison have shown up to be butchered?
We lived in the New Mexico-Oklahoma-Texas area back in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
The most terrifying time I remember was going from Clayton NM to Boyce City OK and crossing the dry Beaver River on a long ONE LANE wooden bridge. That bridge scared me to death as it looked to be very ramshakle.
Just a little ways into Wyoming on I90 from SD, there is a buffalo kill spot. The Indians stampeded them over a cliff, and..........
A fascinating book about it is Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
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And to change the subject, it is probably safe to say that another 11,500 years will quietly pass before the good people of Oklahoma will see Oklahoma University playing for a national college football championship. Go Notre Dame!
5500 years before “Let there be light”.
