Meeteetse Stories

Season 2 Episode 2: Bison the Hunted


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Bison Bone terminology can be found here thanks to GRSLE Archaeology

 

Mass Kill Sites

Vore Site:

Vore Buffalo Jump websiteWyoHistory entry on the Vore Buffalo Jump
UWYO Extension Office tour of Vore Buffalo Jump
Visit Vore Buffalo Jump through this 3D model

 

Horner Site:

"The Horner Site: Taphonomy of an Early Holocene Bison Bonebed" PhD Thesis by Dr. Lawrence Todd

"The Ecology of Early Holocene Bison in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Wyoming: Preliminary Results from the Horner Site" by Kenneth P. Cannon, S.H. Hughes, and C. Simpson

Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office entry on the Horner Site

"The Horner Site: The Type Site of the Cody Cultural Complex" edited by George C Frison and Lawrence C Todd can be found through the Wyoming Public Libraries


More information on Mass Kill/Jump Sites:

"Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains" by Jack W. Brink can be found through Legends Bookstore here


Bison at the End of the 19th Century:

Fish and Wildlife Service timeline of the American Bison
"'Kill Every Buffalo You Can! Every Buffalo Dead is an Indian Gone' The American bison is the New U.S. National Mammal, But its Slaughter Was Once Seen as a Way to Starve Native Americans into Submission" by J. Weston Phippen

"Where the Buffalo No Longer Roamed: The Transcontinental Railroad Connected East and West- and Accelerated the Destruction of What Had Been in the Center of North America" by Gilbert King, the Smithsonian Magazine

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