Birdshead Cave, a Stratified Site in Wind River Basin, Wyoming

1950 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley L. Bliss
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Potable Water ◽  
Fault Scarp ◽  
The South ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
South Side ◽  
Wind River Basin ◽  
Talus Slopes ◽  
Limestone Rock

Birdshead Cave lies in a fault scarp on the south side of the Owl Creek Mountains about 5 miles west of the entrance to Wind River Canyon, 23 miles north and west of Shoshoni, Wyoming, and 1 mile northwest of the old Burgess ranch buildings. It contained stratified deposits representing seven, perhaps even eight or nine, periods of occupation in six occupation levels covering a wide temporal range. The cave is approached by steep talus slopes broken by limestone rock ledges. It lies about 200 feet above the source of a spring of fresh, potable water emerging near the base of the scarp. The name, Birdshead, is that of an Arapaho Indian who was living at the old Burgess ranch, now part of the Arapaho Indian Reservation.

On ulug oglum agrïp yok bolča in the Bilgä Kagan Inscription

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-550
Author(s):  
Li Yong-Sŏng ◽  
Park Won Kil
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
South Side

AbstractThis paper attempts to give new explanation for the expression agrïp yok bol- occurring in 9th line of the south side of the Bilgä Kagan Inscription. After a thorough survey of former research and several Chinese sources, the authors came to the conclusion that this expression must be a euphemistic expression for being beheaded in a battle. The authors found also that kog säŋün was Guo Yingjie 郭英傑. In sum, the sentence in question is to be read as ulug oglum agrïp yok bolča kog säŋünüg balbal tikä bertim ‘When my oldest son died of a disease, I readily erected General Kog as a balbal (for him).’ The expression agrïp yok bol- is to be regarded as a euphemistic expression for being beheaded in a battle.

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