3d reconstructed bison skull

Bison, the Sustainer of Early Life

Nov. 6, 2023

In the summers of 1958 and 1960, CU Boulder’s first curator of anthropology, Joe Ben Wheat, excavated the Olsen-Chubbuck site, an area near Kit Carson, Colorado, that contained remains of bison dating to 8200 B.C.

Bison

Buffalo Rancher

Sept. 1, 2015

Hunted nearly to extinction by the time the University of Colorado was founded, the American buffalo owes its rebound mainly to private ranchers.