Posted on 03/20/2016 5:57:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Shaggy, heavy-shouldered bison... made a tempting target for the hunters who walked the empty landscape between 9,000 and 13,000 years ago. The bison were attracted to a lush landscape west of Socorro, New Mexico where wetlands created by mountain runoff stretched across hundreds of acres. The hunters were attracted to the bison...
At Water Canyon Dello-Russo and his collaborators have found spear and/or atlatl (throwing stick) points from the Clovis people, who hunted here more than 13,000 years ago, from the Folsom people who hunted here more than 12,000 years ago, from the Cody Complex hunters who butchered bison and left the bones around 10,800 years ago, and from the late Paleo-Indian people who hunted across this landscape around 9,200 years ago, and also left bones from butchered bison. Dello-Russo and his collaborators have also found gypsum points from the Middle to Late Archaic people.
They don't yet know precisely how many generations of hunters found prey at this spot. As a historical comparison, the Paleo-Indian hunters roamed the landscape between 12,000 and 8,000 years before the Ancestral Native Americans built Chaco Canyon, another famous archeological site in the state...
Blackwater Draw or the Clovis Site, in eastern New Mexico is the first site in the state where it could be documented that generations of Paleo-Indian hunters successfully hunted and killed their prey at one place on the landscape, and then returned to the place again and again. Water Canyon, west of Socorro appears to be the second...
Dello-Russo also found something at the Water Canyon site called a "black mat" – a buried, but intact layer of sediment with a high degree of organic matter that represents the remains of the prehistoric wetland. It includes decomposed plants, pollen, snails [etc] ...
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
My pleasure!
BTW I went back to your thread from 2003. Striking how many posters on that thread aren’t around anymore.
You’re welcome.
Worse....I know a number of the missing that have died.
I ate bison as a kid - tasted like roast beef. Kinda dry.
Wow, reminiscent of Load Bearing Drywall.
Blam, I clearly remember the first time I read your post “Who Were The Si-Te-Cah” way back in 2003.
It was a minor epiphany for me.
Hey, in that thread I just found a post from you to me, under a different name, from 12 years ago!
You’ve been curing me of my ignorance for over a decade now.
Glad to hear.
Try bison at Ted’s Montana Grill. Juicy, flavorful and tender.
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