The Folsom Tradition is a name given by archaeologists to a specific Paleo-Indian archaeological culture that occupied much of central North America. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos Paleo-Indians or Paleo-Americans were the ancient peoples of the Americas who were present at the end of the last Ice Age. In addition to its usual meaning in Social science, in Archaeology, the term culture is also used in reference to several related concepts unique to The term was first used in 1927 by Jesse Dade Figgins, director of the Colorado Museum of Natural History.
Numerous Paleoindian cultures occupied North America, with some restricted to the Great Plains and Great Lakes of the modern United States of America and Canada as well as adjacent areas to the west and south west. The Great Plains are the broad expanse of Prairie and Steppe which lie east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada The Laurentian Great Lakes are a chain of freshwater lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada–United States border. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The Folsom Tradition was characterised by use of Folsom points as projectile tips and activities known from kill sites where slaughter and butchering of bison took place and Folsom tools were left behind. Folsom points are a distinct form of chipped stone Projectile points associated with the Folsom Tradition of North America. This is an article about an animal For other uses see Bison (disambiguation.
Some kill sites exhibit evidence of up to 50 bison being killed, although the Folsom diet apparently included mountain sheep, marmots, deer and cottontail rabbit as well. The argali, or the mountain sheep (species Ovis ammon) is the globally endangered wild sheep, which roams the highlands of Central Asia Marmots are members of the Genus Marmota, in the Rodent family Sciuridae (squirrels A deer is a Ruminant Mammal belonging to the family Cervidae.
A Folsom site at Hanson, Wyoming also revealed areas of hardstanding which indicate possible dwellings.
The type site is Folsom Site, near Folsom, New Mexico in Colfax County (29CX1), a marsh-side kill site found in about 1908 by George McJunkin (an ex-slave Cowboy who had lived in Texas as a child). In Archaeology a type site (also known as a type-site or typesite) is a site that is considered the model of a particular Archaeological Folsom Site (29CX1 in Folsom New Mexico, is the Archaeological site that is the is the Type site for the Folsom Tradition, a Paleo-Indian Folsom is a village in Union County, New Mexico, United States. The excavation by archaeologists did not occur until 1926.
The Folsom Tradition is thought to have derived from the earlier Clovis culture and dates to between 9000 BC and 8000 BC. The Clovis culture (sometimes referred to as the Llano culture) is a Prehistoric Paleoindian culture that first appears in the archaeological
The Lindenmeier Site in Colorado is a campsite that was used throughout a longer period, spanning this era. The Lindenmeier Site is a Folsom culture Archaeological site located on the former Lindenmeier Ranch in northeastern Larimer County, Colorado
References
- Hillerman, Anthony G. (1973). Tony Hillerman (born 27 May 1925 is an award-winning American author of Detective novels and non-fiction works "The Hunt for the Lost American", The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other Indian Country Affairs. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0-8263-0306-4. republished in (May 1997) The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other Indian Country Affairs. New York: Harper Paperbacks. ISBN 0-06-101173-8.
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