BUTCHERING PATTERNS & SEASONALITY OF THE CERTAIN SITE, WESTERN OKLAHOMA

Summary

The Certain Site is a Late Archaic site in Western Oklahoma that contains at least five arroyo bison trap kills totaling over 200 animals. Numerous bison bones from these kills exhibit evidence of butchering – cut marks, green bone breaks, embedded tools. The butchering sequences associated with each kill was identified through thorough examination of these butchering marks from the site’s various arroyo kill localities. Combined with previously identified seasonality estimates for each kill, I determine whether the seasonality of kill correlates with a distinct butchering pattern. This data is also compared with the butchering patterns used at various other bison kill sites from the region to identify any possible correlations between seasonality of kill and butchering pattern used throughout Southern Plains bison kill sites.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)

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