They have identified a spear carved from bone that’s about 70,000 to 80,000 years old. This is the oldest spear ever found in ...

The largest bison bone bed was estimated to cover almost 3,000 square meters and contained the remains of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of butchered bison remains and prehistoric spear points ...

prehistoric hunters had pressed collections of bison bones deep into the earth. “I had my students dig below the bone bed, not expecting to find anything,” says Bubel. “Then we started to ...

Rondeau suspects the hill could have been a bison jump. He said holding the bone of a bison makes it real for him and the nearby community of Sturgeon Lake First Nation, connecting them with the ...

Two thousand years of erosion, plus scavengers and burrowing animals likely played some role in distribution of the bison bones, he said. The unusual thing about the Sarpy bone bed, one ...

Aside from the park's hulking and impressive herd bull, the bison babies are the seasonal stars of the show. On average, 2-5 calves are born to the Big Bone herd annually. Born in the spring or ...

Community-oriented historian David Rondeau inspects a hill site in Prince Albert where he found a bison bone that was dated at more than 8,000 years old. Rondeau says the dark lines in the hill ...