Wyoming, Crook County, Vore Buffalo Jump
The fabricated tepee was located at the Vore Buffalo Jump, an archeological site in Crook County, Wyoming. The site is the location of a sinkhole formed where gypsum soil was eroded, leaving a steep-sided pit about 40 feet deep and 200 feet in diameter. Indigenous people would drive herds of buffalo toward a pit, aiming for them to fall in, making it easier to harvest them. At the bottom lie the remains of 20,000 buffalo, along with tools used in the harvest—knives, arrowheads, spear points, and wolf skulls—all preserved in layers of clay and red dirt. The bottom of the Vore sinkhole contains the bones of 20,000 buffalo and the tools of buffalo harvest: knives, arrowheads, spear points, wolf skulls, all preserved in layers of clay and red dirt. The site is maintained by the Vore Buffalo Jump Foundation.
Wyoming, Crook County, Vore Buffalo Jump
The fabricated tepee was located at the Vore Buffalo Jump, an archeological site in Crook County, Wyoming. The site is the location of a sinkhole formed where gypsum soil was eroded, leaving a steep-sided pit about 40 feet deep and 200 feet in diameter. Indigenous people would drive herds of buffalo toward a pit, aiming for them to fall in, making it easier to harvest them. At the bottom lie the remains of 20,000 buffalo, along with tools used in the harvest—knives, arrowheads, spear points, and wolf skulls—all preserved in layers of clay and red dirt. The bottom of the Vore sinkhole contains the bones of 20,000 buffalo and the tools of buffalo harvest: knives, arrowheads, spear points, wolf skulls, all preserved in layers of clay and red dirt. The site is maintained by the Vore Buffalo Jump Foundation.