Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill

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In the late 1920s out of doors a sleepy remote New Mexico village, prehistory was once made. Spear points, found embedded between the ribs of an extinct Ice Age bison at the site of Folsom, after all resolved decades of bitter scientific controversy over whether the first Americans had arrived in the New World in Ice Age times. Even if Folsom is justly famous in the history of archaeology for resolving that dispute, for decades little was once known of the site except for that it was once very old. This book for the first time tells the full story of Folsom. David J. Meltzer deftly combines the result of extensive new excavations and laboratory analyses from the late 1990s, with the result of a complete examination and analysis of the entire original artifacts and bison remains recovered in the 1920s – now scattered in museums and small towns across the country. The usage of the recent in archaeological method and technique, and bringing in data from geology and paleoecology, this interdisciplinary study provides a comprehensive look at the adaptations and environments of the late Ice Age Paleoindian hunters who killed a large herd of bison at this spot, in addition to a measure of Folsom’s pivotal role in American archaeology.

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