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Bison Bones from the Allen Site, Wyoming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jack E. Berman
Jack E. Berman*
Affiliation:
University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo.
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Abstract

Measurements of bison metapodials give promise of a basis for species identification, but more data will be needed for fully satisfactory results. Bones from the Allen site in Wyoming are probably either Bison occidentalis or Bison antiquus.

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American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , July 1959 , pp. 116
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1959

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