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Observations on the Butchering Technique at a Prehistoric Bison-Kill in Montana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Thomas F. Kehoe  and
Alice B. Kehoe
Thomas F. Kehoe
Affiliation:
Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History, Regina, Sask.
Alice B. Kehoe
Affiliation:
Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History, Regina, Sask.
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Abstract

The analysis of the bone from a bison drive in north-central Montana corroborates the implications of White's analyses of bison bone from Plains villages: the heaviest non-meaty bone was left at the kill site, the bones rich in marrow were chopped up for marrow-extraction; even when many animals were available all were thoroughly utilized by the hunters. This excavation also confirms ethnographic data on season of drives, methods of butchering, and use of arrows for killing.

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American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , January 1960 , pp. 420 - 423
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1960

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