[BGHater]

[BGHater]

‘They killed the animals with stone tools and carved them up on the spot, leaving the bones and tools behind.’

Those Savages!

lol. ping.

[BlueStateBlues]

. . .along with 35 absentee ballots for Al Franken

[BlueStateBlues]

Why would they leave their tools behind? Not very responsible Indians.

[Cowboy Bob]

Does this mean that the Indians caused the extinction of the buffalo in the Ohio Valley?

[fso301]

Bones and tools left behind? Compare that with a modern slaughterhouse in which even the bones, blood and offal have commercial value and are put to use.

[Brucifer]

KFB! Kentucky Fried Bison.

[VOA]

“They went that-a-way.”

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

A good question to ask is, “And then what happened?”

After the kill, they had to process the dead bison before the meat rotted.

This is not easy.

When the hides were removed, they were staked out over an ant hill, to get rid of the fleas. Then usually the fur was scraped off, and they were tanned by boiling the brains and some other organs inside the large intestines, which was rubbed into the hides before they were rolled up to age. Once aged, the muck was scraped off and the hides were pulled through rope loops to soften them by breaking up some of the fibers.

This process was done a lot in the great plains, because leather and stone were the most abundant materials. The leather was used as tenting, clothing, footwear, rope, carrying containers, etc.

While this process was going on, the meat that wasn’t cooked and eaten immediately would be cut into thin strips and dried over fires or in the sun, to be used for pemmican. It was pounded into a near powder, then mixed with melted animal fat and other ingredients like berries, if available, before being stored in leather pouches. Properly made it could last about a year.

This implies that an awful lot of work went on near this bison kill.

[Rudder]

Okay. Where did they find all these bones?

The bones were discovered in Big Bone Creek

If the creek wasn't named after the heretofore "undiscovered" bison bones, could then the creek's name refer to something erotic?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BGHater, but alas:

Indian hunt-and-kill site a rare find
WZTV | November 15, 2008 | Kentucky Enquirer http://www.enquirer.com
Posted on 11/15/2008 6:05:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Edited on 11/15/2008 6:17:58 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2132863/posts

But this is probably my fault, I never posted the ping message after posting the topic. [blush]

[SunkenCiv]

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