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Multi-periodSite Name: Badger Hole (Oklahoma)
Country: United States Region: The Plains Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Woodward, OK  Nearest Village: Fort Supply, OK
Latitude: 36.570000N  Longitude: 99.57W
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Badger Hole (Oklahoma) submitted by bat400 : Bison antiquus, La Brea Tar Pits 7 August 2007 Photo - David Monniaux Own work, copyleft: Multi-license with GFDL and Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-2.5 and older versions (2.0 and 1.0) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation Lic... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Bison kill site in Harper County, Oklahoma. 10,500 year old Folsom Age site on a bluff near the Beaver River. Fifteen to 20 percent larger than modern bison, Bison antiquus bones make up the remains at the kill site. Paleoindian hunters were able to kill hundreds of these massive bison - weighing 1500 pounds each without the help of bows and arrows or horses.

Folsom points have been found in the bone bed. Excavation project leader Lee Bement (Oklahoma Archaeological Survey) is looking for any cultural artifact remains that may shed light on this period, when climate warming appears to have had a partial to major impact on species extinction and the rise of new species, including the modern bison (Bison bison.)

Excavations continue to 2012.

The location given is for one of the closest population centers, Fort Supply. The location given is not the Badger Hole site itself.

Note: Pining for some Time Team? The American version visits Badger Hole and Dillard 'Lost Pueblo Village' - watch online from anywhere in the world.
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Time Team America Visits Badger Hole by bat400 on Wednesday, 27 August 2014
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At Badger Hole, Oklahoma, the Time Team America crew excavates what may be the largest Folsom-period bison kill site in North America. Long extinct, Bison Antiquus roamed the plains 10,000 years ago. How were Paleoindian hunters able to kill so many of these massive bison—weighing 1500 pounds each—without the help of bows and arrows or even horses? The lives of these ancient ancestors seem elusive, but by investigating bison bones, arrowheads and more, the Team discovers clues about their habitat, hunting range, and their ingenuity that will help us understand them.

Now that the episode on Badger Hole has aired, you should be able to access the video of the program The Bones of Badger Hole. Also from TTA see Dillard, The Lost Pueblo Village
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Re: Oklahoma University Finishes Bison Kill site excavation by Anonymous on Monday, 10 September 2012
What evidence do you have that the Clovis culture were Paleoindians? I remember reading somewhere that the Folsom points and associated Clovis culture appear in the USA eastern seaboard sites pretty much at the same time as the Solutrean culture disappears from the archaeological record in western France. Those finely worked tools must have had a providence whatever the ethnic implications of a Clovis/Solutrean joint identity. Do they appear in the US archaeology without any evolution and development?
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    Folsum Points, Not Clovis Points - But ... by bat400 on Monday, 10 September 2012
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    A better question might be how good is your evidence that Colvis "people" were not Paleoindians?

    In regards this article: This is an excerpt of an article, so the word choices are those of original writers. Additionally, Folsum Points are, in general, later than Clovis Points. Folsum points have generally been considered to have derived from the basic Clovis design, although they have been not been found over as wide an area of North America as the earlier Clovis points, some of which are found on the eastern seaboard.

    Re your comments "...Folsom points and associated Clovis culture appear in the USA eastern seaboard sites pretty much at the same time as the Solutrean culture disappears from the archaeological record in western France...."

    These are the dates I have seen:
    Folsum 10000-11000BC (uncertain if this is calendar or RCYBP)
    Colvis 11,500 to 10,900 (RCYBP)
    Solutrean 20,500 to 17,000BC (RCYBP)

    The gap between Solutrean and Clovis is one of the chief argument against Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley's "Solutrean Hypothisis." For my own part the overwelming, massive predominance of Asian origin DNA in the Americas is the basic support that the people in the New World prior to early European exploration could be classed as "Paleo Indian."

    You might want to read this is a link for the Megalithic Portal's report on Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley's "Solutrean Hypothisis" and the links in comments for that story.
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Oklahoma University Finishes Bison Kill site excavation by bat400 on Tuesday, 04 September 2012
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This summer, a team of OU archeologists finished excavating a bison kill site that hadn’t been touched by humans in thousands of years. The site was last visited by humans in the Folsom Age — which was more than 10,000 years ago, said K.C. Carlson, field director of the excavation.

The team found the skeletal remains of more than a dozen bison, some Folsom points — weapons used to kill bison — and some of the butchering tools Paleoindians used to cut up the animals, OU archeologist Leland Bement said.

“The last people to see [the bones] were the ones butchering the bison,” Carlson said.

The Badger Hole kill site excavation was a continuation of the OU Archeological Survey’s project to excavate a number of bison kill sites along the Beaver River in Northwest Oklahoma, Carlson said.

This was the second year the team had been excavating the site, so they knew what to expect when they were digging around in the sticky red dirt, but that didn’t take away from the excitement of finding something, she said.

The exact number of remains and artifacts that were found is undetermined at this time because the team is still analyzing its findings, Bement said.

As part of the field school, OU’s team butchered a bison using the primitive, stone tools the Paleoindians would have used, Carlson said.

Having that hands-on experience helped Carlson understand more of what she was seeing when she was examining butcher marks.

“[Butchering the bison] was a really neat experience because we spend so much time in the lab looking at these butcher marks,” she said. "To really make sense of those was really cool.”

Members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes who donated the bison to the team helped butcher the bison, Carlson said.

The sites the team have excavated date back to right after the extinction of the mammoth at the end of the last ice age, Bement said they are important because they highlight the development of the Paleoindians’ hunting strategies, which stuck with them for the next 10,000 years.



Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see: http://www.oudaily.com.

Also, see information on participation of Time Team America.
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