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Natural PlacesSite Name: Peterson Bison KillCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 37.551 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Plains Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Granite Falls, MN
Latitude: 44.810000N Longitude: 95.54W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Natural Stone / Other Natural Feature in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota.
A natural funnel created by two rock ledges was the site of Archaic hunters' repeated kills of the bison occidentals, a thousand kilo animal with horns spanning a meter or more. Here bones of the extinct animal and stone butchering tools have been found along with a short stone wall that might possibly be connected to guiding animals into the natural trap.
Little excavation has taken place at the site, which only discovered twenty years ago. The site on the property of the Person family does not appear to be open to the public although it is mentioned in some tourist information for the locality. The Peterson Bison Kill Site is a few miles south of Granite Falls, MN. The location given is for the town and does not mark the actual site.
Note: 5000 BC Bison Kill Site eyed by archaeologists to answer questions on Minnesota's archaic history.
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