Badger Hole: Towards Defining a Folsom Bison Hunting Complex along the Beaver River, Oklahoma

Badger Hole, 34HP 194, is a Folsom-age arroyo bison kill along the north side of the Beaver River floodplain in northwestern Oklahoma. Badger Hole joins the Cooper and Jake Bluff sites to define one of the highest density Folsom site concentrations in this area of the southern Plains. Together these sites suggest the possible existence of a bison hunting complex that is structured on bison migration, arroyo occurrence, and seasonally specific intercept patterns. A preliminary definition of the Beaver River bison hunting complex is provided based on recent results of limited excavation at the recently discovered Badger Hole site.