Hudson-Meng Bison Kill
The Hudson-Meng Bison Kill site, credited to Bill Hudson and Albert Meng, local ranchers who discovered the bonebed in 1954 while digging for a pond, is located in the Oglala National Grassland of western Nebraska northwest of Crawford. It was originally excavated by Dr. Larry Agenbroad in the 1970s. The excavation was over 400 square meters and it was considered the largest Alberta Culture bison kill site ever discovered. The bison found are not the same species as the bison that currently live in the United States, but are an animal transitional in evolution between the extinct bison species, Bison antiquus and the Bison bison.
In the 1990s, the site underwent another series of smaller excavations by Drs. Larry Todd of Colorado State University and David Rapson of the University of Wyoming, who suggested that the bison died of unknown natural causes and that the site was not in fact a kill site. Further research must be done to provide a more thorough interpretation of the site.
Recently, Dr. Douglas Bamforth of the University of Colorado has undertaken excavations at the site.
The site was managed for two years by the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs under the supervision of the United States Forest Service. As of 2009, the site is managed by the US Forest Service out of Chadron, Nebraska.
External links
- US Forest Service: Recreation - Will include information about visiting Hudson-Meng Bison Kill
- Colorado State University 2002 Field Seminar about the Hudson-Meng Bison Kill
- Summary of Recent Fieldwork at the Hudson-Meng Site - by L. C. Todd and D. J. Rapson, 1991–1998
42°50′12″N 103°37′12″W / 42.836616°N 103.619989°W
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