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Part of a bison skull and other bones after being catalogued and placed in climate-controlled storage at SD Mines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

RAPID CITY\u2014 Between 1993 and 1995, a team of archeologists undertook an excavation of prehistoric animal bones in the Deerfield area of the Black Hills. They found bison, mountain lion, deer, elk and a range of smaller animal bones. Work on the age of the specimens is still underway, but researchers estimate some of the bones date as far back as 8,000 years.
\nAfter excavation, the bones were taken to the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, where they stayed for more than 20 years. In 2017, the US Forest Service moved these back to South Dakota, and students in the paleontological resource management class at SD Mines stepped up to help. The students took part in an effort between the US Forest Service, the South Dakota State Historical Society Archaeological Research Center, and the Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology to curate these specimens.
\n\u201cA lot of times, in different repositories, this material will just sit and sit for years,\u201d says Mike Hilton, the heritage resources program manager for the Black Hills National Forest. Hilton gives praise to Sally Shelton, the associate director of the Museum of Geology at Mines, and the students in her paleontology resource management class. The students undertook the bulk of the work in the project to unpack, assess, catalog and prepare the animal bones for storage at the Museum of Geology. Other parts of the collection were curated at the Archaeological Research Center (ARC) in Rapid City.
\n\u201cThe collections will now be accessible and available to local experts. We have a vested interest in taking care of this collection and learning more from it,\u201d says Katie Lamie, the repository manager at ARC.
\nThe project also helped students explore the intersection between archeology and paleontology. \u201cWe really need each other in research like this,\u201d says Shelton. Paleontology is the study of life in the distant past long before humans, while archeology more often involves specimens from the more recent past during the evolution of humans. \u201cThis is the youngest collection that any of these students have ever done,\u201d says Shelton.
\n\u201cWe married this school with a different branch of science we\u2019re not used to working with,\u201d says Julie Driebergen, who finished her master\u2019s degree in paleontology at SD Mines this spring.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re super appreciative that they thought of us for this project. Tt was a great opportunity for us,\u201d adds Shannon Harrel, a master\u2019s student in paleontology at Mines.
\nThe American public and local communities also benefit from this effort. \u201cThis is still federal property, and we have a responsibility to properly curate this for public use and knowledge,\u201d says Hilton. \u201cThis is part of the history of the Black Hills and this resource is now available for future generations to learn more about our past.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Part of a bison skull and other bones after being catalogued and placed in climate-controlled storage at SD Mines. RAPID CITY\u2014 Between 1993 and 1995, a team of archeologists undertook an excavation of prehistoric animal bones in the Deerfield area of the Black Hills. They found bison, mountain lion, deer, <\/p>\n

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