Early Sites

Other Idaho Sites from the Paleoindian Period

Wilson Butte Cave is one of several Paleoindian sites in Idaho. The following fourteen sites have also shown evidence of the presence of prehistoric Americans. Idaho’s Paleoindian sites include the Buhl Burial Site, where one of the most complete and best preserved Paleoindian skeletons in the Americas was discovered in 1989.

(BP)= "Years Before Present”

Site Name	Date(BP)	Location	Discoveries
Bison and Veratic Rockshelters	10,000	Clark County	Bison bone associated with lanceolate points (comparable to Haskett points) Single “Clovis-like” point fragment
Buhl Burial Site	10,600	Twin Falls County	Oldest human skeletal material recovered from Idaho (female) One of best preserved and most complete paleoindian skeletons in the Americas Obsidian stemmed biface Fine bone needle Incised bone artifact Badger bone (baculum used as funerary object)
Haskett Site	10,000-9,000	Power County	Lanceolate points Flake knives Haskett Points (similar to Lake Mojave points)
Hatwai Site	10,800	Nez Perce County	Windust stemmed and lanceolate points
Hetrick Site	9,000	Washington County	Most complete Paleoindian component of any archeological site in western Idaho Contained earliest evidence of salmon use in open site context in Idaho Stemmed Windust projectile points Bone awl/whistle Bison, elk, deer, bighorn sheep, rabbits, fish, waterfowl, mussel
Redfish Overhang	10,000	Custer County	Haskett point Two scrapers “Multi-purpose tool”
Simon Clovis Cache	undated	Camas County	Largest and best example of Clovis technology in Idaho Five complete Clovis points Clovis preforms Quartz crystal bifaces
Wasden Site (Owl Cave)	10,900-8,000	Bonneville County	Three fluted Folsom points Mammoth, bison, camel, dire wolf Mammoth long bones used to produce bone tools

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