EXCAVATION IN PROGRESS
OF BONE PILE NUMBER 2

COLBY SITE---NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING
PICTURE CREDIT--UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT

   Bone pile number 2 was discovered during a test

excavation in the fall of 1973. The arrow in this

picture is pointing to a broken camel radius that is

not believed to have been associated with the main

bone bed. It was probably deposited by water flowing

through this ancient arroyo where 7 mammoths were

killed and butchered by Clovis hunters 14,000
years ago.

   Several artifacts were found in bone pile number 2.

A small red Clovis point, 18 resharpening flakes, a

large granite water worn rock, a sandstone abrader,

and two bone fragments thought to have been used

as tools.

Bone Pile number 2 on the Colby mammoth kill site.

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