Prehistory

Title	Author(s)	Article Type
Colby Mammoth Site	WyomingHeritage.org	Encyclopedia
Finley Bison Kill Site	Stephanie Lowe	Encyclopedia
Legend Rock	WyomingHeritage.org	Encyclopedia
Medicine Lodge	WyomingHeritage.org	Encyclopedia
Medicine Wheel	WyomingHeritage.org	Encyclopedia
Pedro Mountain Mummy, The	Rebecca Hein	Encyclopedia
Pictographs and petroglyphs	Tom Rea	Essay
Vore Buffalo Jump	WyomingHeritage.org	Encyclopedia
White Mountain Petroglyphs	WyomingHeritage.org	Encyclopedia

The Pedro Mountain Mummy

The mystery surrounding the Pedro Mountain Mummy, discovered in the 1930s about 60 miles south of Casper, Wyo., by two gold prospectors, continues to intrigue people. While some sensational media accounts indicated the mummy might have been one of the little people of American Indian folklore, scientists who studied the artifact in detail have concluded that the mummy was an infant who died because of a congenital defect.

Encyclopedia : May 6, 2013 - 3:37pm

Finley Bison Kill Site

The Finley Site, located near Eden in Sweetwater County, Wyo., was used by early American Indians to trap and kill bison. The Finley Site is an early Holocene Paleo-Indian bison-kill and processing area, dating back about 7,500 to 12,500 years before the present. This was the first place where Eden points and two kinds of Scottsbluff projectile points were found together, showing that the three were contemporaneous. The Finley Site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Encyclopedia : December 16, 2011 - 12:38am

The Vore Buffalo Jump

The Vore Buffalo Jump, a natural sinkhole where ancient tribes drove bison to butcher them, now lies adjacent to I-90 near Sundance, Wyo., and is open to the public during the summer.

Encyclopedia : September 20, 2011 - 10:32pm

White Mountain Petroglyphs

The White Mountain Petroglyphs in the Red Desert north of Rock Springs, Wyo., feature hundreds of images carved into a rock face between 1,000 and 200 years ago. The site is on Bureau of Land Management land, and is open to the public.

Encyclopedia : September 19, 2011 - 10:13pm

Medicine Wheel

The Medicine Wheel, a ring of limestone boulders 80 feet in diameter with 28 spokes radiating from a central cairn, lies on an open mountaintop at an elevation above 9,600 feet in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains. People have used the area for perhaps 7,000 years; researchers believe the wheel was constructed over a period of centuries from about 1,500 to about 500 years ago.

Encyclopedia : September 19, 2011 - 9:50pm

Legend Rock

Legend Rock, about 30 miles northwest of Thermopolis, Wyo., features nearly 300 images carved or pecked into a rock cliff by ancient peoples over thousands of years.

Encyclopedia : September 19, 2011 - 9:19pm

Colby Mammoth Site

Remains of at least seven mammoths, probably from a meat cache dating back more than 11,000 years, were found when the Colby Mammoth site east of Worland, Wyo., was excavated by a crew under Wyoming State Archaeologist George Frison in the 1970s.

Encyclopedia : September 18, 2011 - 11:36am

Medicine Lodge Archaeological Site

Medicine Lodge State Archaeological Site, northeast of Hyattville, contains pictographs and petroglyphs left by Wyoming’s ancient people, as well as an attractive, state-run campsite and small museum. Archaeologists have found evidence at the site of human habitation stretching back 10,000 years.

Encyclopedia : September 18, 2011 - 11:18am

Pictures on Rock: What pictographs, petroglyphs say about the people who made them

The earliest people appear to have come to Wyoming from Asia about 11,000 years ago and archaeologists now think there’s a good chance the people were direct ancestors of Shoshone people who live in Wyoming now. In recent years, the mostly white archaeologists have realized it makes sense to ask Shoshone people for help understanding the pictures and carvings their ancestors left on the rocks.

Essay : September 22, 2010 - 5:50pm

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