Bison antiquus Right Metatarsal

KO-119 $206.00

Bison antiquus, right metatarsal found associated with other skeletal elements during excavation of the Ayer Pond, Orcas Island Pleistocene site in the Pacific Northwest in 2003.

Age: 12,000 years (late Pleistocene). The skull of this specimen is considered to be one of the finest and largest found to date. Significantly, the bones suggest human activity in this region about 800 years before the Clovis era. The evidence supplied by the bones is consistent with butchering by humans and inconsistent with carnivore activity (e.g., wolves would have typically damaged the nasals, bears would not typically have broken the humerus at its thickest point, and there would have been far more surface damage to the bones). The skull is also available, either with a stand (BC-313-ST) or without (BC-313). The right tibia (KO-118) is also available.