Bow hunting fossil

[vtmtnman]

That's cool stuff there.

[Wary Buck]

VERY COOL stuff.  Seems Gene Wensel also has something like that, maybe a vertabrae with a spear point or something embedded in it.  Again, very cool stuff and what a thrill it would be to find something like that.

[McDave]

I would guess, from the way the arrow point impacted the femur, that he may have had his shoulders lined up to the left of the target, or maybe his arrows were a little too stiff for his bow.  Have him send us a video to evaluate, and we'll get him back on track so he'll get a double-lung shot next time  

[Ted Fry]

Heck I thought this post was on Charlie or Vance since it was titled Bowhunting fossil, Naw really this is cool, I once saw a bison vertebra with an obsidian point buried halfway in at another shop years ago, not sure whatever happened to it as the shop is gone.

[larryh]

having butchered over 100 buffalo, i will say that i doubt that that is a bone from an american bison. their bones are not any larger than a typical bull or cow of the same size, and are generally smaller.
maybe that was your friends best guess? i believe a spear point in a wooly mammoth bone is more likely.
ted, if i email a picture of a buffalo skeleton to you can you post it here?
i don't know how to do that.

[Ted Fry]

Happy to Larry.

[larryh]

you should have it now. thanks ted.

[Ted Fry]

Nothing yet Larry , send it to ted@raptorarchery.com

[razorsharptokill]

Yes I guess it may have been his assumption. I'll quiz him more the next time I see him. It looks pretty big for a cow sized bone. If it is a wooly mammoth or rhino it would be much older then huh?

[larryh]

about 8- 10,000 years or so. that may be a clovis point stuck in there!
ted, i resent the photo.

[Big Ed]

really interesting pics,makes you think

[razorsharptokill]

I found this reference pic of an Americn Bison femur.
 

[Ted Fry]

Heres Larry's picture

[razorsharptokill]

I think it's a rear femur with arrow head in the right side of the caudal view above.

[artifaker1]

The first pic I'm not too sure about but it could be a bison antiques with an atlatl point in it. But the second was on history detectives and is a calf creek point in a bison antiques skull. The bison antiques is older and bigger than modern bison. Calf creeks were thought to be knifes until that find. The first point and leg bone look to be pretty old but the point doesn't look that distinctive to me.

[SKYLER W]

Don't intend to take away from the other pics, which a very interesting but thought we'd share this unique find......Picked up from a plowed field about 10 miles from our home on the Tennessee River. It was found by one of our Hunting buddies.....Lot's of speculation as to what the bone is and what species.......Tippit thinks he knows and We showed the actual bone/point to lots of people who should know.....What do Yall think??????  

[Brian Krebs]

that looks like Jimmy Hoffa's nose !!

[Vig]

Originally posted by Dave2old:
This appears to me to be a giant wide-horned bison femur, which would date it at the close of the Pleistocene, 10,000 - 12,000 years ago.... I've seen quite a few of them and this looks right.

Well Dave, in trying to figure out just how old is "2old", I've tried to guess your actual age.  It looks like I was way off; by at least 9,900 to 11,900 years!

Nonetheless these are some interesting pictures and a very intriguing discussion.  

-Vig

[razorsharptokill]

Who knows who I could contact about getting this thing identified and dated (roughly) I could get better pics with a ruler in them for scale.

[The Vanilla Gorilla]

Hey Jim, check out the Oklahoma Archaeological Society website.

http://www.csasok.org/pages/home.htm

My old man used to be a member and I know some of these guys. Good fellas.

I see there's actually a flyer on the website for an artifact show in Stillwater this weekend. They'd be more than enough guys there to help you out, and probably even more that would just wanna see that.