The camp, used by Blackfoot peoples from to the 14th to 17th centuries, sheds light on a key commodity of the pre-contact Northern Plains.
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N. America’s Oldest Bison Fossil Found, Revealing ‘Mother of All Bison’
A fossil bone found in Yukon reveals that all North American bison descended from a single female that crossed into the Americas less than 200,000 years ago.
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Bones in Yukon Cave Show Humans in North America 24,000 Years Ago, Study Says
A close look at bones found in a Yukon cave may confirm a controversial finding made decades ago: that humans arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier than many experts believe.
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‘Unexpected’ 3,000-Year-Old Bison Hunting Site Discovered in Southern Arizona
On a ranch in southeastern Arizona, archaeologists searching for signs of ancient corn farming have instead uncovered a 3,000-year-old bison-hunting site.
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Cave Discovered in South Dakota Contains Thousands of Ice Age Fossils
Once protected by thickets of poison ivy and riddled with rattlesnakes, a cave discovered in South Dakota’s Wind Cave National Park has, for the scientists exploring it, certainly lived up…
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11,500-Year-Old Bison Butchering Site Discovered in Oklahoma
A stretch of floodplain in northwestern Oklahoma, already known for its profusion of prehistoric hunting sites, has turned up new find: a scatter of butchered bison bones dating back nearly…
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Fire Reveals Human Stone Effigy, Bison-Kill Site in Montana
A grass fire in northern Montana has uncovered an ancient complex of stone alignments and other features that have likely not been seen for centuries — and certainly never from…
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2,500-Year-Old Bison-Kill Site Offers New Clues Into Ancient Culture of Northern Plains
A massive and rather cunning bison kill carried out some 2,500 years ago among the sand dunes of southern Alberta left behind a wealth of artifacts that are offering new insights…
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Giant Ice-Age ‘Longhorn Bison’ Unearthed in San Diego
Highway workers have unearthed the fossilized bones of an unusual giant bison in a suburb of San Diego, the first such discovery in Southern California. The fossil may date back…
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