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@@XiahouJoe never said I found them in the Platte

@@amateurnebraskafossilcolle5101 I know that's why I ask...

I live in Lincoln but this was found to the south west of here

I just checked your channel and didn’t see any bones.

@amateurnebraskafossilcolle5101 I didn't take a video yet.I wasn't sure if you get on very often or saw my comment.I'll try to do that this evening, I really appreciate it!

I've got a friend that hunts creeks inside Omaha and finds decent stuff

50 miles apart on diffrent creeks

Lol. I'm not telling you that! My spots are already crowded enough.. sorry.

Oof

Stag moose? Yes I have a few pieces of them.

@@amateurnebraskafossilcolle5101 The Stag Moose is geuninly interesting and Your finds where truly awsome! But, i as i heard there was a newly discovered subspecies of large Vapiti that existed long in the 1600 as i understood, but where probably extinct by the settlers who taught they where common Elks. At least that's what i heard. The horns and the body proportions where different from the Stag moose and it was less extreme, it looked more like a scaled up Vapiti from the bone reconstructions i seen on picture. I am just curious... This type of more subtle differenses is not as well discovered yet as the distinctive subspecies, one example i can think about is the pikes wtih similar differenses, and the now most likely extincted Erupean giant pike, i always assumed they where Nordic pikes, but it turned out to be a long gone British specimen which rumors said could grow even larger. As i heard there where a similar differense in the American Vapiti population in the 1600s acording to bone finds in arceological excavations. I strongly belive it has once been a correspondant in europe too (but with enlarged crown deers instead of Vapitis), but they where probably extinct allredy in the iron age so they where never documented in the same way. At least i think so whan i look at some old bones on the museums here, some of them are much larger than the others, a bit too much and too consistent to just be explaind by natural selection. (i know that since i worked with the deers on my fathers farm since the early 80s, and they don't consistantly develope that way just by unlimited acess of food and natural selection among the same specimen, that's why i think so).

Thank you for your input on the humerus. My curious about your thoughts on the thoracic vert that looks lie it was hit by a spear. I'm also curious about the atlas with cut marks. Was it relatively common for native Americans to actually remove skulls?

@@amateurnebraskafossilcolle5101 As with all of my comments relative to the faunal I have to put a caveat on them; that it is my opinion based upon what I can tell from the video. To be more certain I would have to have at least detailed still shots preferably with a measurement tool included, such as a ruler or yardstick. And to be absolutely certain I would have to see them in person. That said I think that the vertebra mentioned was struck by a spear point or possibly a large atlatl point. Hopefully you have some type of recording system showing where each find has been found. For the Atlas vertebra the marks are almost certainly knife marks from removing the Atlas from the occipitals of the skull. Whether or not a skull was removed from the vertebral column would depend on the circumstances. Such as how far was it to camp? What time of year is it? How is your current nutritional needs being met? Are you basically out of food? Or are you just capping off your supply? Do you need the brains for tanning? Do you wish to make spoons or drinking containers out of the horns, etc. I found dozens of skulls in one jump site, and all were separated from their vertebral columns. The articulated bones would be parts of the vertebral column and front legs. If you are in good shape nutritionally and you happen to kill too many animals for your needs, such as was common at bison jumps, then you might just cut off the best cuts of the animals and leave the rest. Cut marks are common on most bones of the skeleton and were due to either disarticulation work or the removal of meat from the bone. This is course is pretty definitive evidence of human caused death of the animal. Bones found in rivers however were often deaths due to drowning during high water crossings or breaking through winter ice with no human involvement. Keep up the great work.

I don't know what part of the country your in but I will be taking alot of my collection to a show in Leavenworth Kansas in April 2023 Its the dark river artifact show.

@@amateurnebraskafossilcolle5101 Would love to be there; however, that's a 3-day trip east of me!

I've never fossil hunted that direction. I knew of someone else who did and found nice stuff. I find both cow and bison in my main hunting area but based on skulls and ribs it's mostly bison. Quicksand is everywhere. Usually it's only shin deep but sometimes waist deep. Only twice have I ever gotten into deep quicksand. Had to flop forward spread my weight out and crawl out.

Western Iowa and Southern Iowa are really good for bison

What item is that?

I won't narrow it down more than Nebraska. I've been hunting bones for about 15 years and these are my best. To many pieces to talk about each one but some are covered in previous videos. As for why, my son and his friends found a modern female Bison skull and it got me started and then obsessed hunting.