by Jerry Painter - November 13, 2021
Source article can be found at https://www.postregister.com/news/local/this-is-a-huge-collection-wasden-collection-of-ice-age-discoveries-near-i-f-finds/article_258abce4-3d8d-5132-ad9d-4f248eaac101.html
By most estimates it was a blood bath.
Our story begins 9,000 or 10,000 years ago about 20 miles west of Idaho Falls. A group of native people lined up barriers to funnel bison into the sharp drop off of a collapsed lava tube cave. Then they chased the bison into the trap. About 60 hapless creatures stampeded into the hole and were speared and butchered.
Fast forward several thousand years to 1965. A group of amateur archaeologists called the Upper Snake River Prehistoric Society became interested in three lava tube caves about 20 miles west of Idaho Falls.