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[ link to westerndigs.org] 11,500-Year-Old Bison Butchering Site Discovered in Oklahoma
“The Beaver River complex is unique, because it is revisited numerous times during the Paleoindian period, and so much has been preserved for our research,” said Dr. Kristen Carlson, a University of Oklahoma archaeologist.
The latest find was made on a narrow bench of land between two arroyos by Carlson’s colleague, Dr. Leland Bement, while surveying previously discovered bison-kill sites nearby.
The three other sites in the complex are all found within a range of just 700 meters along the Beaver River, Bement noted, and the oldest of them is more than 12,000 years old, dating to the era of the widespread Clovis culture.
The sites discovered here are noteworthy for the hunting technique that they reveal: the use of so-called “arroyo traps,” which the archaeologists say is the oldest known method of large-scale bison hunting.
Ancient hunters used arroyos or ditches as natural drive lines, Bement explained, to chase bison and trap them in a dead-end gulch.
“When the animals reach the high bank at the dead end of the gully, they can’t get out, and that is when the hunters positioned on the gully rim spear them,” he said.
“The animals are then butchered where they fall in the gully.Similar to the cliffs more northern style as well.
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