Posted on 10/07/2002 5:12:26 PM PDT by blam
Found: January 1989, at a gravel quarry near Buhl, Idaho
Age: 10,600 years
Discoverers: Highway workers
Significance: Having been reburied by Shoshone-Bannock tribes in 1991 before thorough study could occur, Buhl Woman underscores scientists' fears of losing access to ancient Paleoindian skeletons.
Dead before she turned 21, this young woman found a final resting place in a gravel bar beside the Snake River, where windblown sand and silt slowly covered her body. Her right cheek lay atop a pressure-flaked, pointed obsidian tool, perhaps made specially as a grave gift.
In life, Buhl Woman ate abundant bison and elk, as well as salmon heading upriver to spawn. Sloping surfaces and heavily worn enamel on her teeth - unusual for someone so young - indicate that her diet included frequent doses of sand or grit, as if her meat had been pounded or stoneground into a jerky.
Lines of interrupted growth on her thigh bone tell of stress from illness or malnutrition during childhood, but she grew to a height of 5'2" and otherwise enjoyed good health. What caused her death remains unknown.
I think I remember those, lol.
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BM I too would like to see the photos when you post them. As to the hair style of the amulets—Weren’t the Chinese making long sea voyages around this time period. Did they perhaps use southeast Asian nigrito people for navigators? The people from Fiji come to mind. What about the sea Dyaks, what do they look like? If the Chinese were as wide spread then as they are now, they could have recruited people from many places. I think they even reached east Africa.
The links are too old. (2002) They don’t work. Any other way of seeing the artifacts?
OOPS! I meant to post to SunkenCiv!
Bernard we have all been very patiently waiting for you to post those pictures.
I think nine years ought to be enough time, what gives?(ahem)
My photo skills have improved a little since then; I'll have another go at it, hopefully with better results.
I wanted to see pictures but the link is gone.
This page is gone to.
Maybe I’ve got the wrong thing on my mind, but after looking at those pics, I think some ancient sex toy home party girl left her bag behind.
This was found precisely on the route of the Oregon Trail near the Snake River canyon in suburban Twin Falls, Idaho in the early 1970s. My young cousin found it while digging in his back yard. I have no reason to doubt his story: he was only 13 or 14 at the time. There's always the possibility it was lost or discarded by an Oregon-bound emigrant. This area was also frequently traveled by Indians, fur trappers and explorers.
It's a bas-relief carving in some sort of black/dark gray stone about 2 inches long dimension. The white appears to be deliberately painted to show relief. It seems to depict a boy or young man with very Aryan features, wearing a turban with some sort of decoration hanging down from the middle. He's wearing large circular ear ornaments and some sort of ornamented garment or necklace. I have side views but will have to wait for daylight for natural light images.
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