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11,500-Year-Old Bison Butchering Site Discovered in Oklahoma
Western Digs ^ | June 8, 2015 | Blake de Pastino

Posted on 06/10/2015 3:13:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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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)

1 posted on 06/10/2015 3:13:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 06/10/2015 3:16:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

Very cool. I grew up in eastern Oklahoma and always wanted to explore the panhandle areas more.


3 posted on 06/10/2015 3:20:43 PM PDT by arbitrary.squid
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To: SunkenCiv

I would think an 11,500 year old bison would be pretty tough. And hard to butcher.


4 posted on 06/10/2015 3:25:07 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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5 posted on 06/10/2015 3:25:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Larry Lucido

Wily, able to outwit or outfight predators for 110 centuries? Probably have to shoot ‘em from a chopper.


6 posted on 06/10/2015 3:26:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: arbitrary.squid

:’)


7 posted on 06/10/2015 3:27:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for posting. Interesting.


8 posted on 06/10/2015 3:32:39 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: SunkenCiv

Nice collection of hot buffler links ya got there, Pilgrim! ;-)


9 posted on 06/10/2015 3:34:35 PM PDT by TigersEye (If You Are Ignorant, Don't Vote!)
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To: Larry Lucido

I’d think you would have to slow cook the meat for a few centuries.


10 posted on 06/10/2015 3:37:12 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: SunkenCiv

At 11,500 years this is the oldest bison ever!

;)


11 posted on 06/10/2015 3:40:33 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civIns law enables him to do so.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


12 posted on 06/10/2015 3:49:16 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Pic of a diorama at the American Museum of Natural History here in New york City.

 photo Bison Cliff - Indians - AMNH 01_zpsphstezj0.jpg

13 posted on 06/10/2015 3:54:56 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Well, you can’t blame the white folks for THAT one! :-)


14 posted on 06/10/2015 3:59:17 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SunkenCiv

My mother went to high school in Leedey, OK, a little to the southwest of that area. They were called the Leedey Bison.


15 posted on 06/10/2015 4:21:33 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: SunkenCiv

So how many 11,500 year old bison have shown up to be butchered?


16 posted on 06/10/2015 4:45:06 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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Gosh, those poor 11,500 yo bison, being slaughtered like that.

No respect for the elders, even back then in Oklahoma. Sad. I blame Woody Guthrie.


17 posted on 06/10/2015 4:57:00 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck ("Why NO Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE!")
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To: Larry Lucido

A Texan could still make great barbecue from it :)


18 posted on 06/10/2015 4:58:27 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


19 posted on 06/10/2015 4:59:40 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: SunkenCiv

They slow down quite a bit after age 11,100.


20 posted on 06/10/2015 4:59:53 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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