Hostname: page-component-7b7567c8c-2n9c9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-15T22:49:30.052Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

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.
Get accessRights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

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.

Information

Type
Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , July 1959, pp. 116
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1959

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Schultz, C. B. and W. D., Frankforter 1951 A Preliminary Report on the Bison Remains from the Finley Site. In “Early Man in the Eden Valley,” by Moss, J. H., pp. 119–24. University Museum, Museum Monographs. Philadelphia.Google Scholar
Skinner, M. F. and Kaisen, O. C. 1947 The Fossil Bison of Alaska and a Preliminary Revision of the Genus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 89, No. 3. New York.Google Scholar
Simpson, G. G. 1941 Large Pleistocene Felines of North America. American Museum Novitiates, No. 1136. American Museum of Natural History, New York.Google Scholar