Bison
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Mar 1901
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. William H. Holmes
notes: label: Notes
content: Bison teeth from a spring deposit. Collected by W. H. Holmes in 1901. From Hay, Oliver P. 1921. Descriptions of Some Pleistocene Vertebrates Found in the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58: 127. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.: "BISON, ep. inctet. Remains of one or more species of Bison were found in the excavation at Afton. Among these remains are upper and lower teeth, incisors, premolars, and molars. Probably some of them belonged to existing bison, but others pretty certainly to one or more extinct species. Eight teeth (Cat. No. 9122), belonging to at least two individuals, are regarded especially as being those of an extinct species. They appear to be well mineralized, and they have the enamel blackened. They are fully as large as the largest teeth of the existing buffalo. In the department of anthropology there are other similar teeth. Other teeth present little evidence of any considerable geological age, but this may be deceptive."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Afton Near, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
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content: Archaeobiology
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Bison
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028587
label: USNM Number
content: A591678-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Archaeofauna
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia Chordata Mammalia Artiodactyla Bovidae