The Plainview Bone Bed – New Insights from an Old Collection

Plainview is a Paleoindian bison kill on the Southern High Plains (USA). This study examines whether the Plainview bison represent a chronologic marker, tests three models regarding the season of kill(s), and explores site size and number of kill events. Size difference in early Holocene southern grasslands bison is a matter of biogeographic variation of the same species rather than reflecting a time difference. None of the three models...