Or better yet, what about all of the buffalo skeletons from the Midwest? I can’t see them today.
Perhaps because they were gathered up and destroyed?
You have to remember that innards of skeletons contain bone marrow, a very nutrient-rich and bloody substance. Carnivores LOVE to gnaw away and nibble at that stuff. If a bear or mountain lion found an Indian corpse, it’d probably be feeding on it. There’s also scavengers and other decomposing organisms to think about. This is all without factoring in environmental conditions. Out west, with windy dust storms, there’d be high chances of wind erosion. And hurricanes in the southwest and tornadoes in the Great Plains would displace and mangle heaps of skeletal remains.
Remember, fossilization is actually a pretty rare process. That not a lot of remains have been found isn’t surprising.
The Eastern tribes were among the most populous and lived in large settled groups. Their dead, diseased bodies were stacked like cordwood according to “historical” accounts.
It’s a simple point, really—An archealogical record larger than the relatively few recovered artefacts would be expected from such “devastation.”
Or is this just another homily/dogma that is supposed to pass unchallenged?
They were gathered by the ton and shipped off to make fertilizer. Bonetrail, North Dakota (near ghost town, now) got its name from the trade.