May
30
/ 2015
U.S. government archaeologists set a controlled fire in April 2015 to reveal a unique site in northern Montana that has large Native American stone effigies, cairns, circles and structures used centuries ago to drive cattle into catchment areas for slaughter. A couple weeks later they sent up an aerial drone to photograph and record data about the ancient site. U.S. Bureau of Land Management personnel burned off brush and prairie grasses to allow a better view of and easier access to the structures. Since the 1960s the site was known to have a buffalo jump, where Indians herded buffalos off cliffs and then harvested the meat, organs, skin, bones and ligaments for food, clothing, housing and implements. But vegetation was
