Folsom tradition

Folsom tradition

The Folsom Complex is a name given by archaeologists to a specific Paleo-Indian archaeological culture that occupied much of central North America. 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 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.

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.

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). The excavation by archaeologists did not occur until 1926.

The Folsom Complex is thought to have derived from the earlier Clovis culture and dates to between 9000 BC and 8000 BC.

The Lindenmeier Site in Colorado is a campsite that was used throughout a longer period, spanning this era.

References

*cite book |title= The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other Indian Country Affairs |last= Hillerman |first= Anthony G. |authorlink= Tony Hillerman |year= 1973 |publisher= University of New Mexico Press |isbn= 0-8263-0306-4|chapter= The Hunt for the Lost American republished in cite book |title= The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other Indian Country Affairs |year= 1997 |month= May |publisher= Harper Paperbacks |location= New York |isbn= 0-06-101173-8


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