The Wold Bison Jump (48JO966) and its relation to the ancestral Crow on the Northwest Plains

We report results from excavations at the Wold Bison Jump (Wold, site number 48JO966), a Late Prehistoric (ca. 300–500 BP) bison jump located in the southeast foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming. We argue that (a) the site was created by the ancestral Crow based on its location, age, material culture, and hunting technique and (b) the jump at Wold triggered a large rock fall event, as evidenced by the presence of articulated bison remains beneath cliff spalls in the bone bed and a general co-association with colluvial, clast-supported matrix. We conclude that Wold was part of a larger spread of bison jumping to areas south of Montana late in prehistory, coeval with the Piney Creek and Big Goose Creek archaeological sites, and the earliest bison jumps at Vore, and alongside a suite of material culture associated with the ancestral Crow on the Northwest Plains

Archaeology · Biology · Bison bison · Cartography · Culture of the United States · Excavation · Foothills · Geography · Prehistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Ecology · Geology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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