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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The Texas Quote of the Day:
"At Mile Canyon, near Langtry, archeologists have found evidence of a simple but effective tactic used some 10,000 years ago by early first Texas hunters. Here, a natural cleft in the canyon rim was used to funnel herds of buffalo off the edge of the cliff to their deaths on the rocks below. Then the hunters could butcher and skin their quarry at leisure. This is the oldest known American example, by several thousand years, of 'the bison jump.'"
---- "The Indian Texans," a pamphlet prepared by The University of Texas Institute for Texan Cultures in 1970
By the way: Bison jumps were a hunting method once used by ancient peoples across North America. There are about 150 other known sites, mostly in Canada and Montana. The bison jump site at Mile Canyon is by far the southernmost site. The technique took advantage of the animals’ herding behavior: hunters drove them toward an unseen cliff or drop-off, over which they plunged. Other hunters waited below to kill injured bison. Also, An adult male modern bison can weigh as much as a ton (2,240 pounds) and stands six feet high. The extinct bison species found at Mile Canyon was much larger. An adult male may have weighed 3,500 pounds and stood 7 1/2 feet high.
Shown here: the portion of Mile Canyon over which the bison were driven. Photo by Dave Dibble.

It's crazy how bison were decimated in this country.