Pronghorn Procurement at the Bear River Site (48GO22), Southeastern Wyoming

Summary

The Bear River Site (48GO22) was located in 1979 during a class III cultural resource survey for a Wyoming Department of Transportation project along the LaGrange Road in Goshen County, Wyoming near the town of LaGrange (Sanders and Francis 1979). The site is in extreme southeastern Wyoming, near the Nebraska border. Artifacts and bone were first identified eroding from an apparent natural (erosional) cut in the third alluvial terrace above the river. This included flakes and a possible large mammal bone fragment. In addition, a 1-3 centimeter (cm) thick charcoal lens was noted on the northern face of the terrace between 43-45 cm from the top of the terrace. During the spring of 1980, the site was revisited with the intent to determine the nature of possible buried cultural remains (Eckles 1980).

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Wyoming Archaeologist 2010

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