Can someone help date a bison skull? (link in text)

by MDR88

http://i.imgur.com/eJr0BCu.jpg My coworker has found 4 of these skulls and was wondering the age. Rural Iowa about 35 feet deep.

itsallfolklore

You may want to contact the Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA) at the University of Iowa. You can also ask /r/Iowa. The OSA would be the best place; they can tell you how the artifacts are best handled, and they may be interested in the site.

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M-elephant

A curator at a public museum (natural history/paleontology or archaeology) is another good place to get them looked at. At a glace I am pretty sure that they are not from the modern bison species, but they need to be measured to be sure.