Northern Great Basin Prehistory Project
Archaeological Field School
2014 Summer Session
Bones and Bone Tools
Pictured below are bone tools and implements. These artifacts have been discovered over the course of many years of careful excavation in the Fort Rock Basin area.
Unit 5-6 vertebrae in situ |
Excavation of Pleistocene Bones |
Possible Bone Tool |
Split Bone |
Pleistocene Camel Bones |
Polished Bone |
Hooves |
Horse Toe Bones |
Cut Bone |
Large Mammal Bone |
Camel Bones |
Another Pleistocene Bone |
Antler Wedge |
Cave 5 Camelid Patella, Thomas Stafford |
Bone Spoons |
12,000 Year Old Bison Horn Core Spatula |
Bone Tools and atlatl weight (upper right) |
Horse Phalange, Cave 5 |