The Jones-Miller Legacy Collection: Reexamining the 10,800 Year Old Bison Butchery Site

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Jones-Miller Site, located in the eastern Colorado tri-state area, was excavated in the mid-1970s. The Hell Gap complex site has been credited as the only bison butchery site of its kind and size in Colorado, yielding 41,000 Bison antiquus bones, 200 stone tools, 11,000 pieces of debitage, and hundreds of liters of soil samples. In 2017, the Jones-Miller Collection returned to Colorado from its long-term loan at the Smithsonian to be rehoused and added to the collections at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Dennis Stanford, the Principal Investigator, worked with many colleagues to conduct a robust set of research sharing about and explaining the site, including carbon dating, tool analysis, paleo-climate reconstructions, and general zooarchaeological analyses. Stanford planned to publish a manuscript compiling these results, but unfortunately, this did not come to fruition. Here, we present our work rehousing, cataloging, and reexamining the collection. Additionally, we will share our findings that replicate the results Stanford and Team had while highlighting differences in our results from those that the Jones-Miller research team found. Finally, we share future goals, both for the unpublished manuscript, and the future of research with the collection.

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• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39570.0