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paleo-indian

3 Porch Notes tagged “paleo-indian,” from counties across Colorado.

History and culture - Yuma County

A Smithsonian Ice Age Bison Hunt, Displayed in Downtown Wray

The Wray Museum on the Eastern Plains holds a permanent Smithsonian paleo-Indian exhibit built around a real Ice Age bison-kill bone bed.

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History and culture - Yuma County

Under a Wray Cornfield, an Ice Age Bison Hunt

A rancher's bones turned out to be one of the oldest bison hunts in Colorado, and the Wray Museum is where you can stand close to it.

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History and culture - Larimer County

At Soapstone Prairie, a spear point in a bison's spine rewrote the past

At the Lindenmeier site in Fort Collins's Soapstone Prairie Natural Area, a stone point lodged in the backbone of an extinct bison helped prove people hunted here at the end of the Ice Age, roughly 10,000 years ago.

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