The last two pics have been around forever. My great grandfather remembered picking up bison bones when they first settled in EC/SE Alberta, he said the odd one still had some old dried hide still on them.
In reference to the first picture of the three pics in my post #27... The first picture is supposed to be the remains of Chief Poundmaker's last big buffalo corral.
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This country was started by voyagers whose young lives were swept away by the currents of the rivers for ten cents a day... just for the vanity of the European's beaver hats. ~ Red Bullets
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It is when you walk alone in nature that you discover your strengths and weaknesses. ~ Red Bullets
I have done a fair amount of research in the timing of the bison demise and settlement as it is a passion of mine. There are some fascinating stories out there of the last sightings in Ab/Sk/Mt...it is beyond cool to read about.
I have done a fair amount of research in the timing of the bison demise and settlement as it is a passion of mine. There are some fascinating stories out there of the last sightings in Ab/Sk/Mt...it is beyond cool to read about.
You would probably enjoy this book online. The bonus is that their are people that narrate the book so you can sit back and listen to the book. When's the last time someone read you a story?
Not just US based. This book has some great info on the northern herds that were in Canada. Written by someone who was there too.
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This country was started by voyagers whose young lives were swept away by the currents of the rivers for ten cents a day... just for the vanity of the European's beaver hats. ~ Red Bullets
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It is when you walk alone in nature that you discover your strengths and weaknesses. ~ Red Bullets
You would probably enjoy this book online. The bonus is that their are people that narrate the book so you can sit back and listen to the book. When's the last time someone read you a story?
Not just US based. This book has some great info on the northern herds that were in Canada. Written by someone who was there too.
Thanks for that, I’ll enjoy that. When I’m out now bow hunting on bluffs and hills padding around in my socks, I imagine seeing the herds below me and predicting the future hunt.
Won't be long before there are some new ones to be found.
One cow and her young took a 50-kilometre, two-day trip in early October that covered areas out of Banff National Park .
Don't hear about those unless you're paying attention.
Grizz
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"Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal."
John E. Pfeiffer The Emergence of Man
written in 1969
Digging the basement for our new house in 2010, we rolled out many small pieces of bison bone, discoloured pink from the minerals in the soil. Found at random in the till, and none of the bits were large. I took one chunk to the archaeologist at the Bodo dig site who identified it as a bison patella. I keep thinking about what catastrophe ground up those skeletons and caused them to drift into my build site.
Digging the basement for our new house in 2010, we rolled out many small pieces of bison bone, discoloured pink from the minerals in the soil. Found at random in the till, and none of the bits were large. I took one chunk to the archaeologist at the Bodo dig site who identified it as a bison patella. I keep thinking about what catastrophe ground up those skeletons and caused them to drift into my build site.
This was more than likely a processing area. They would smash all the bones to get the bone marrow. They would process most of the animal where it was killed. Most skulls found are from animals that died naturally. Skulls are never found at kill sights. The skulls are thought to be packed back to camp and processed for the brain, used for tanning. A skull I found on the Oldman River had a hole in the skull plate. You could see tool marks that made the hole. Straight into the brain cavity. It's been looked at by the head archeologist of Alberta. He confirmed those facts. It's in the Gem of The West museum, in Coldale.
I was wondering if anyone knew how to tell how old a buffalo skull is or where a guy could take a skull to get it aged?
Found this old skull two summers ago when my dog walked across it submerged in a local creek. I recently found another part of a bison skull in the same creek and also what seems to be a buffalo skeleton eroding out of a nearby bank. I love seeing what new treasures pop up after the spring run off each year!
I took one to an archaeology prof and they were able to provide some insight and a rough guess to age. Mine was a complete skull with horn sheaths dug out of a coulee though. I was a student at the time but I'm sure some of them will still help out the public.
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