The bison is a shining example of how humans can almost drive a species to extinction and bring it back. So how did we do it...well let's find out
Instagram - [ Ссылка ]
References
Bement, L.C. and Carter, B.J., 2010. Jake Bluff: Clovis bison hunting on the southern Plains of North America. American Antiquity, 75(4), pp.907-933.
Bement, L.C., 2009. Clovis sites, gut piles, and environmental reconstructions in northwest Oklahoma. Plains anthropologist, 54(212), pp.325-331.
Bennett, M.R., Bustos, D., Pigati, J.S., Springer, K.B., Urban, T.M., Holliday, V.T., Reynolds, S.C., Budka, M., Honke, J.S., Hudson, A.M. and Fenerty, B., 2021. Evidence of humans in North America during the last glacial maximum. Science, 373(6562), pp.1528-1531.
Bonatto, S.L. and Salzano, F.M., 1997. A single and early migration for the peopling of the Americas supported by mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 94(5), pp.1866-1871.
de Leon, S., 2003. The Buffalo Jump Among The Northern Plains Tribes. Whispering Wind, 33(1), p.14.
Freese, C.H., Aune, K.E., Boyd, D.P., Derr, J.N., Forrest, S.C., Gates, C.C., Gogan, P.J., Grassel, S.M., Halbert, N.D., Kunkel, K. and Redford, K.H., 2007. Second chance for the plains bison. Biological Conservation, 136(2), pp.175-184.
Frison, G.C., 1971. The buffalo pound in north-western Plains prehistory: Site 48 CA 302, Wyoming. American Antiquity, 36(1), pp.77-91.
Froese, D., Stiller, M., Heintzman, P.D., Reyes, A.V., Zazula, G.D., Soares, A.E., Meyer, M., Hall, E., Jensen, B.J., Arnold, L.J. and MacPhee, R.D., 2017. Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(13), pp.3457-3462.
Guthrie, R.D., 1970. Bison evolution and zoogeography in North America during the Pleistocene. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 45(1), pp.1-15.
Morin-Rivat, J., 2017. Of trees and men: new insights into man-environment relationships in the moist forests of central Africa during the late Holocene. Afrique: Archéologie & Arts, (13), pp.124-125.
Sheppard Software., 2024. Bison. Available at: [ Ссылка ]
Smits, D.D., 1994. The frontier army and the destruction of the buffalo: 1865-1883. Western Historical Quarterly, 25(3), pp.312-338.
Surovell, T.A., Boyd, J.R., Haynes Jr, C.V. and Hodgins, G.W., 2016. On the dating of the Folsom Complex and its correlation with the Younger Dryas, the end of Clovis, and megafaunal extinction. PaleoAmerica, 2(2), pp.81-89.
Taylor, M.S., 2011. Buffalo hunt: International trade and the virtual extinction of the North American bison. American Economic Review, 101(7), pp.3162-3195.
WUERTHNER, G., 2021. What Role Did Native Americans and Horses Play in the Decline of Bison?. CounterPunch.
