One of favorites from this winter.

[gravelbar]

Beautiful knife marks on this vertebrae. The weather is too terrible to hunt, so I’ll just look at relics by the fire!

 

[Blackfoot58]

What’s the background story?
Where found, etc.

 

[gravelbar]

What’s the background story?
Where found, etc.

Sure! Arkansas River near Arkansas City, Kansas. Water was very low and we found a confluence with a creek that was "on the move". Hundreds of Bison, deer and everything else bones was being dredged up from the bottom and deposited on a sand bar downstream. Friends had already found a couple of bison skulls. We did find a killer point, though. I'll post it in a minute when I find it.

 

[gravelbar]

Beautiful knife marks on this vertebrae. The weather is too terrible to hunt, so I’ll just look at relics by the fire!View attachment 2247654

Here it is!!

 

[Older The Better]

Like finding cut marks myself I always look for them on bone. And the point with a hole is crazy… you think a fossil fell out?

 

[gravelbar]

Like finding cut marks myself I always look for them on bone. And the point with a hole is crazy… you think a fossil fell out?

Yes! This is only the second bone I have found with indisputable cut marks. The hole in the point is definitely a conical fossil that fell out during reduction. Poor picture but there are other fossils in the piece that look like they could fall out, too.

 

[newnan man]

Nice finds.

 

[Trezurehunter]

I like that point and the knife marks on the bone.