Bone with eveidence of butchering from Ohio

[Hoss]

Said to predate Clovis by seven hundred years!
This is an awesome article.
http://www.leaderpost.com/technology...457/story.html

[Paleolution]

Good article Hoss!  Pretty amazing those monsters were here being hunted by humans here in the U.S.  A really good book on bone tooling identification is "Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies", by Dennis Stanford.  It show many examples of bison bones and the indicators of butchering.  It was interesting to see which bones were crushed for marrow and left at the kill site, as opposed to the bones carried to the butcher site.  Thanks for sharing!

[painshill]

Thanks Hoss. Here’s a pic of some of the cutmarks (credit: copyright Cleveland Museum of Natural History):

… and a nice downloadable summary with more pictures here:

http://www.cmnh.org/site/Files/archaeology/SVPposter08.pdf

I perceive the usual and unhelpful sloppiness about date reporting in “second-hand” sources. CMNH quotes a “calendrical” age of 13,458 to 13,716 “calibrated years before present”, so, I take that to be the true age. Radiocarbon dates would otherwise define “the present” as 1950AD, adding a further 61 years to the quoted age.
I would also assume that the confidence limits on the dating reflect both the measurement uncertainty and the calibration curve error. In any case, for an item of that age the calibration error would be less than +/- 50 years.

[ajbhawkowl]

Thanks for sharing

[Bone2stone]

As opposed to fossil bone with well defined bite marks.



Cretaceous
  Bone2stone

[greywolf22]

It is now known that there were people here before Clovis. The Gault site in Texas shows us this and other sites. I think the before Clovis in now excepted by most.
I would like to see some pictures of the leg bone.
Jack

[painshill]

greywolf22 wrote:

It is now known that there were people here before Clovis. The Gault site in Texas shows us this and other sites. I think the before Clovis in now excepted by most.
I would like to see some pictures of the leg bone.
Jack

  There's one pic higher up the thread and more in the pdf file I linked to, Jack. They come up small in the document, but since it is pdf they withstand a lot of magnification.

[greywolf22]

Ok I see it now.
Thanks
Jack