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MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA—Students from the University of Exeter were excavating a pit at a prehistoric village site in South Dakota when they unearthed the remains of a bison. Their professor, Alan Outram, told The Mitchell Republic that the animal’s pelvis, spine, tail, and foot bones were found intact. The students also uncovered some of the bison's ribs and portions of the legs. Outram thinks hunters killed the bison in the summer, then threw the bones into a trash pit after it was butchered. The meat may have been cooked with hot rocks. “That sort of food culture is really a part of their identity,” he said. For more, go to "Bison Bone Mystery."
