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COLBY CLOVIS POINT
COLBY SITE
NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT COLLECTION
Cast of a Clovis point from the Colby kill site.
 CAST #P-27
CLOVIS POINT
COLBY SITE---NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT COLLECTION

   This  Clovis point was found during the excavation of the Colby mammoth kill site in 1975. It was found in bone pile number 2 below a row of ribs. This point has the "Colby style base" which is a base that is more rounded and a concavity that is becoming almost "notched". If the concave area was more uniformly flaked all the way to both edges it would look more like a typical Clovis point. This point was probably resharpened at least one or more times. It's made of a dark red Phosphoria Formation chert and measures 2 3/16 inches (56mm) long.

THE COLBY SITE
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   The Colby site is located on private property in north central Wyoming in the Bighorn Basin. This important site was named after Donald Colby who discovered the first Clovis spear point there in 1962. Mr. Colby found it while using heavy earth moving equipment during the construction of a reservoir. The Colby site was first recognized as an important archaeological site when the first scientific excavations began to take place there in 1973. Most of the site was eventually excavated during five separate digging seasons between the years 1973 through 1978.
    Parts of at least seven mammoths were found in an ancient arroyo (dry gully or stream) in two areas designated as bone pile number 1 and bone pile number 2. There was also a third much smaller bone concentration that consisted of a variety of different mammoth bones. It's believed that due to the difference in the preservation of the bones that the mammoths were probably not all killed at the same time. The two larger bone piles were found to be in direct association with a small collection of Clovis related stone and bone artifacts. New dating estimates for Clovis could place this site as early as 14,000 years ago. Other types of animal bones found on the Colby site include horse, camel, bison, pronghorn, jackrabbit and possibly musk-ox.

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