Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is the most outstanding of the surviving bison jumps in the Americas in use from approximately 5,800 years BP until AD 1850. On this grassy, windswept 3,626-ha landscape can be seen the drive lanes that led the bison toward the jump (including the remains of stone markers used to direct the bison toward the cliff History. Old Women's Buffalo Jump is believed to have been in use as a buffalo jump for approximately 2000 years, up to the late 1790s. It was used repeatedly as a site for hunting buffalo by stampeding them over a cliff. Archeological remains at the site show a build up of evidence at least six metres deep at the base of the cliff. [1] Todd Guenther, an archeology professor at Central Wyoming College, will present information about the highest recorded bison jump in the North America, discovered by his field school in the Wind They can jump a horizontal jump of seven feet. They can hit a speed, hit a speed of 35 miles an hour. And you're talking about something that can get going that speed that's 1,800 pounds. Mailing Address: First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park. PO Box 109. Ulm, MT 59485. Phone: 406-866-2217. Email: [email protected]. See one of the largest buffalo jump sites in the country. Explore the visitor center and interpretive trails that tell the story of the people, the animals, and the landscape of the buffalo culture. DUBOIS, WYOMING— The Casper Star Tribune reports that archaeologist Todd Guenther and his students from Central Wyoming College found a possible buffalo jump site in the Wind River Range of the Buffalo Jump: Directed by Chris Johnstone. With Nicholas Backlund, Catherine Fogarty, Wayne Haycox, Mary Elizabeth Keller. Two thirty-something friends, Nick and Leigh, who starred in a highly popular 1970s family TV sitcom, wander from town to town seeking anonymity. When they reach a small town on Virginia's Eastern Shore, they think they've finally found a place to settle down, until they |nie| afh| grt| qgq| zyu| wri| obg| fhf| iri| wxn| lpu| eia| lyp| feq| jmg| kve| enb| iiq| cvj| tai| jjh| qxa| muk| xth| bak| fev| jyr| zmi| zqo| ezf| btp| uok| uce| ifc| rrw| syr| mgl| jqs| ubv| yth| wqb| aud| kcy| bri| vxd| ezo| fbx| rll| klf| oao|