Buffalo jump
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A buffalo jump, or sometimes bison jump, is a cliff formation that Indigenous peoples of North America, beginning with the Clovis culture, historically used to hunt and kill plains bison in mass quant
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, in southern Alberta
Buffalo being chased off a cliff, painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in the late 19th century.
Mile Canyon bison jump site
Wahkpa Chu'gn buffalo jump in Montana.
Cairn
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A cairn is a human-made pile of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Irish: carn.
Buffalo jump
…rotting, and therefore vast amounts of unharvested, wasted carcasses were left to rot out in the open. Buffalo jump sites are often identified by rock cairns, which were markers designating "drive lanes", by which bison would be funneled over the cliff. These drive lanes would often stretch for several miles…
A cairn a mile east of Nine Standards Rigg in the Yorkshire Dales.
One of the cairns at Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery in Ireland, which covers a passage tomb.
A cairn of the Neolithic-era passage tomb on Gavrinis island, Brittany
The biggest cairn in Ireland, Maeve's Cairn on Knocknarea.