University of Oregon

2008 Summer Session
Northern Great Basin Prehistory Project
Archaeology Field School

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


Buffalo Bone


Camel Bones


Another Pleistocene Bone


Antler Wedge


Bone Tools and atlatl weight (upper right)


Bone Spoons
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