Aboriginal Youth Identity Series: Spirituality and Creation

These people appeared around 5 000 years ago, they used a more round and concave spear point. The Oxbow people also used mauls and hammerstones, possibly for pounding seeds and berries, or for breaking bones for marrow which might suggest that they were the inventors of pemmican. They also began to build large circles of stone, often with central cairns which are today called "medicine wheels