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MAMMOTH
KILL AND BUTCHERING SITE LANGE
LANGE-FERGUSON SITE
 
LANGE - FERGUSON MAMMOTH KILL SITE
EXCAVATION
PICTURE
CREDIT--ARCHEOLOGY LABORATORY, CENTER FOR WESTERN STUDIES, AUGUSTANA
COLLEGE, DR. ADRIEN HANNUS
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FURTHER PICTURES AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE LANGE-FERGUSON SITE
The
Lange - Ferguson mammoth kill butchering site is one of only a handful of
mammoth kill sites in North America. This site is located in the White
River Badlands on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Clovis hunters apparently killed two mammoths, one adult and one juvenile,
sometime before 12,000 years ago in what at the time was a marsh or bog. (Hannus
1990: 52)
Stone artifacts found with the bones include two complete
fluted points, one broken base of a fluted point and one small flake. Two
bifacially flaked bone cleavers made from the mammoth scapula and showing
use wear were also found. (Hannus 1990: 61)
Mammoth kill sites in the New World are rare. The remains of
approximately 38 mammoths killed or scavenged by Clovis hunters are all
that were recorded to 1978. (Sanders 1978) This is less than would be
found on one good site in the Ukraine. In Central Europe, the Central
Russian Plain and the Ukraine archaeological research documents 50,000
years of considerable reliance on mammoths. These people used the bones to
build shelters, as a fuel source, workbenches, tools and engraved or
sculpted art. (Hannus 1990: 49)
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