University of Montana and Passport in Time volunteers excavate at the Little Trail Creek site last year. In one pit, on the last day of excavation, a piece of a Paleo-Indian point was discovered that could date back 7,500 years. University of Montana photo
“Despite all of the technological advances hunters have seen developed in the last 50 years — no-scent sprays, exceptional optics and weatherproof clothing — today’s sportsmen share some common traits with the people who stalked animals hundreds and thousands of years ago.
The similarities
have been highlighted on a bluff overlooking the Yellowstone River just north of Gardiner.
There, along Little Trail Creek, archaeologists have found evidence of people honing arrowheads for a hunt, of successful hunters butchering and dining on a variety of big game and of some old-school hunters hanging onto outdated technology after newer gear had been developed. “
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