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    Bison antiquus, the antique bison or ancient bison, is an extinct species of bison that lived in Late Pleistocene North America until around 10,000 years...
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    Some authors consider Bison occidentalis to be an intermediate species between Bison antiquus and modern American bison (Bison bison), spanning from the...
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    A bison (pl.: bison) is a large bovine in the genus Bison (Greek: "wild ox" (bison)) within the tribe Bovini. Two extant and numerous extinct species are...
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    rise to Bison antiquus, the ancestor of modern American bison before 60,000 years ago with the two species co-existing alongside each other. Bison latifrons...
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  • national attention. Bone bed of Bison antiquus remains Image Source: SkybirdForever, Close-up of part of the exposed Bison antiquus bones inside of the climate...
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    the plains bison (Bison bison bison), while the latter probably evolved from a mixing of Bison occidentalis and Bison antiquus. It is unclear whether today's...
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    archaeologists of projectile points in association with the bones of extinct Bison antiquus, especially at the Folsom site near Folsom, New Mexico, established...
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    American bison (Bison bison; pl.: bison), also called the American buffalo or simply buffalo (not to be confused with true buffalo), is a species of bison native...
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    Syncerus antiquus† Genus Bison American bison, Bison bison Wood bison, B. b. athabascae Plains bison, B. b. bison European bison, Bison bonasus Bison palaeosinensis†...
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  • A unique find at the site was that of a Bison antiquus skull, painted with a red zigzag. The Cooper Bison Skull is oldest known painted object in North...
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    The Jones-Miller Bison Kill Site, located in northeast Colorado, was a Paleo-Indian site where Bison antiquus were killed using a game drive system and...
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    artwork. Antelope Island bison herd Bison antiquus Bison bonasus Bison latifrons Bison occidentalis Bison priscus Bison hunting Bison Bovid hybrid Buffalo...
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    known bison, the long-horned Bison latifrons, and the smaller Bison antiquus, the latter of which is thought to be ancestral to modern American bison. Resembling...
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    Bison occidentalis, which is believed to have come from Eurasia, and Bison antiquus which evolved separately from B. priscus. The first human arrivals in...
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    bison), but are an animal transitional in evolution between the extinct Bison antiquus and the modern species. In the 1990s, the site underwent another series...
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  • America: Smilodon fatalis, dire wolf, short-faced bear, American lion, Bison antiquus, Mexican horse, Columbian mammoth, Megalonyx, gray wolf (cameo), grizzly...
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    1908 by George McJunkin within the bone structure of an extinct bison, Bison antiquus, an animal hunted by the Folsom people. The Folsom point was identified...
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    Cody complex is a Paleo-Indian culture group first identified at a bison antiquus kill site near Cody, Wyoming, in 1951. Points possessing characteristics...
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    what caused the extinctions. Bison occidentalis and Bison antiquus, an extinct subspecies of the smaller present-day bison, survived the late Pleistocene...
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    the first in situ Folsom point with the bones of the extinct bison species Bison antiquus. This confirmation of a human presence in the Americas during...
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    horses (Equus & Haringtonhippus), peccaries, Odocoileus, Capromeryx, Bison antiquus and Holmesina. Beyond Texas, Arctodus has also been found in Iowa, Kansas...
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    bison (only Bison bison in North America, and Bison bonasus in Eurasia, survived) Ancient bison (Bison antiquus) (H) Long-horned/Giant bison (Bison latifrons)...
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    unfluted, lanceolate spear tips with concave bases that were found in a Bison antiquus kill site along the Running Water Draw river, near the town of Plainview...
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  • County, Colorado. While the site was used primarily to hunt and butcher bison antiquus, there is evidence that the Paleo-Indians also gathered plants and seeds...
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    isotope analysis of these proteins has shown that Smilodon preyed mainly on bison and horses, and occasionally ground sloths and mammoths, while Homotherium...
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    tarandus) along with various other extinct megafauna like ancient bison (Bison antiquus), the caprine bovid Bootherium bombifrons, mylodontid ground sloth...
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    Tar Pits reveal that ruminants like bison (Bison antiquus, which was much larger than the modern American bison) and camels (Camelops) were most commonly...
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    Burchak-Abramovich, 1984) Genus Bison (Hamilton-Smith, 1827) †Bison antiquus (Leidy, 1852) †Bison georgicus (Burchak-Abramovich & Vekua, 1994) †Bison hanaizumiensis (Matsumoto...
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    included "yesterday's camel" (Camelops hesternus), the Pleistocene bison (Bison antiquus), the "dwarf" pronghorn (Capromeryx minor), the western horse (Equus...
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    collectively called Plano points and like the Folsom people generally hunted Bison antiquus, but made even greater use of techniques to force stampedes off of a...
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