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Couple of teeth I picked up looking for points, thought they might be old, any guesses to what they might have belonged to?
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Look similar to horse teeth that have been broken, to me.
But, they are a bit slimmer than the molar I’ve found. Maybe teeth more toward the front?
This last is a photo from the internet, not mine, showing other horse tooth sizes and shapes.
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Look like bison to me.. a few years back there was a post on here that explained how to tell them apart. Probably by painshill....Judith Basin, MontanaComment
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Thanks for the replies, it does look close to those horse teeth, I'll have to do some digging see if I can find the post on how to tell bison teeth. They could go either way in the camp I found them in, I've found early Archaic all the way to a rusted octagon rifle barrel, I even found the top 1/3 of a bison skull that has one horn on it. The problem I'm running into is the more I look for artifacts, the more other stuff like this I find, the more I have to study to learn what I'm looking at lol. I guess I never thought that I can compare them to the teeth on a complete bison skull I found last fall hunting.
small piece of skull from same camp as teeth below
West central Montana. God bless and happy hunting!Comment
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Wow! Nice findsComment
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Thanks, I put in a lot of miles over the years specifically looking for bison skulls and I'm here to say it's not easy to find a full one or even a partial for that matter, I've been looking and keeping a eye out for 15 years and the crazy part is I found those two within 3 months of each other. The old timers did a good job on cleaning up and selling those bison bones back in the day for fertilizer, glue, ect.
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Originally posted by Cskelton View Post
See post number 8 on this thread:.
Cow teeth? - ArrowHeads.com
The occlusal pattern on FrontRange's cheek tooth is typical for cow or bison but, as evidenced in the very first picture, there is a stylid which is isolated from the main body of the tooth as a discrete column of enamel with cementum holding it in place. All should become clear when you read that thread, but the tooth has almost 100% conclusive diagnostics for Bison.Last edited by painshill; 10-13-2022, 08:10 PM.I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.Comment
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