Little Remnants
Posted by Carol at 10/27/2009 8:50 PM 
Categories: Ranchlife,Dogs
Tags: English Shepherd puppies Wyoming ranch
Categories: Ranchlife,Dogs
Tags: English Shepherd puppies Wyoming ranch
When the mountain buffalo roamed the Big Horns...
so, too, did their predators...
That day as I took photos about weaning and a reeking dog...
I walked around looking at the ground for evidence of these predators...
Here was evidence!
A flake of chert...
trash leftover from making an arrowhead or point...
debitage!
In fact...
I wandered around looking at the loose dirt of molehills or gopher mounds to see what they had scraped to the surface...
and I spied...
something awfully suspicious!
See that rock on the bottom left quadrant?
Close up it looked like this...
Bifacially worked... it was the tip to a point!
How cool.
This is the first artifact I've found in a while...
While I danced around thrilled with my discovery...
Thanking the gods for blessing my search...
Vernon pocketed this.
Aaaaargh!
He found it IN the corral...
The very same corral I ALWAYS look over...
The very same corral we work hundreds of cattle in...
It was broken lengthwise and crosswise...
but what a gorgeous little remnant of hunters...
the predators that fed off of the mighty buffalo.
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PUPPY PHOTO OF THE DAY...
The little female tri dozing...
then stretching...
Makes you want to yawn...
How amazing to find those! I never thought to look around mole and squirrel holes for stuff!
The puppies look adorable!
How cold is it there now? I'm in Southern California, where it is just getting cooler...by our definition anyway!
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Highs in the 30's this past week...highs in the 50's for next... down as low as 9 but most nights upper teens and 20's. So not too bad yet!
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Oh my goodness Carol!!! So when I come out next we will need to go do some artifact hunting!!! PS those puppies are so cute! Do you think that cute tri colored little girl would be happy in my apt. in Laramie?? Just throwing that out there
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Beautiful! The one found in the corral is gorgeous! Yes, I'm a geek!
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I was definitely jealous... but... MINE'S BIGGER!
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Interesting! Quite a "find" I guess.
I looked up "chert" and "debitage" so
knew more about your discovery.
Sending some cuddles to the puppies!
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