ANTH 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Folsom, New Mexico, Bison Antiquus, Folsom Point
22 Sep 2016
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Ales hrdlicka studied and thought that < 4,000 bp was the oldest age when native. Americans entered north america: went to college, physical anthropologist, interested in studying the origins of north america. Figgins (1926) discovered fluted points and extinct bison antiquus remains: this discovery determined that native americans had actually been in north. In dent, colorado the 1st clovis point is found with a mammoth by father c. bilgery. (1932) Clovis point has a flute about half way up while the folsom point are fluted all the way to the tip. Also clovis points are usually larger and longer. Blackwater draw (the clovis site), new mexico layer with clovis points found stratigraphically under folsom layer, e. b. Howard first called these points clovis. (1933: both clovis and folsom techniques found at this site. Complex = tradition: clovis first: the earliest unequivocal archaeological complex in the americas was.
