Great find!!

[BadAdze]

Girlfriend is out doing me. Northwest Missouri, sand bar find right before the water came up quickly. If we had been half an hour later it would have been gone. I am proud of her, a year ago she would have walked right by it.

 

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[old digger]

Now, that is ''bad to the bone''! Awesome find!

 

[Ninjafossils]

That first sentence. Kinda seems like your'e implying something else..... . Nice bison skull btw. She's definently a keeper

 

[drharley1969]

But is is petrified ?? Is it a fossil

 

[vpnavy]

Nice find BadAdze.

 

[BadAdze]

Yes, If i am somehow mistaken, this would be from Bison Antiquus. I could be totally wrong and have a Bison bison skull plate. All of the Bison bones i found as of yet, are from a minimum of 10,000 up to 25,000 years ago. Bison Antiquus went extinct around here 10,000 years ago. The American Bison, or Bison bison is the Buffalo that descended from it and what we have here now.

 

[GatorBoy]

That first sentence. Kinda seems like your'e implying something else..... . Nice bison skull btw. She's definently a keeper

I went there too.
That is an awesome find..it must weigh quite a bit.
Something about the edge of the scull section does look like bone rather than fossil.
If you have doubt you can always test it with a flame or even peroxide.

 

[BadAdze]

How does those tests work bud? I do have my doubts about this one being from Bison Antiquus though. This one side measures just a tad over a foot, so double that for tip to tip on the horn cores, unless this was a juvenile, because one full grown should be around 3 ft. for a male and few inches smaller for an adult female. I am trying to see if the slope of the horn core has anything to do with it as well. How long does it take for bone to fossilize? The slope of the horn core seems to not be relevant unless there are similar age comparisons. I am clueless now.

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

Missouri Native American History | American Indians in Missouri | Indian Tribes of Missouri


cool enuff!!!!

I only have some modern horns a rancher gave me...


from the above site:
"From A.D. 900 to 1700, the Mississipian Period, the Native Americans became highly dependent on the rivers, eating river dwelling animals and growing crops in the fertile soil of the riverbeds. Corn, beans, squash, sunflowers and gourds were grown. These were the Native Americans that De Soto and his men encountered in 1541, when they crossed the Mississippi River into Calpista and Palisema (present day Arcadia Valley Region and Black River Recreation Area)"

 

[GatorBoy]

Well..peroxide might not be a good choice since there could be alot of debris from river mud.. so ..the burn test is simple.
Just hold a flame to any spot on that skull section and if it actually Burns and smells like burnt hair its just stained bone material and not fossil.

 

[BadAdze]

Considering i already washed and put a clear preserving finish on it....lol

 

[GatorBoy]

Oh well..its cool either way..your gut was probably right.

 

[old digger]

Sure does look like a juvenile (male) ''bison antiquitus'' skull. An adult bull ''antiquitus'' would be much larger, but the horn core does show the likeness of bison antiquitus.
As for fossilization, your partial skull is more likely over 10,000 years old and in good shape. Giving it different conditions it would be completely fossilized. Still an awesome find.