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The Folsom culture flourished over a large area on the Great Plains of the United States and Canada, eastward as far as Illinois and westward into the Rocky Mountains. One Folsom site is in Mexico across the Rio Grande River from El Paso, Texas. The distinguishing feature of Folsom culture was its projectile points for spears.
Folsom site or Wild Horse Arroyo, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 29CX1, is a major archaeological site about 8 miles (13 km) west of Folsom, New Mexico. It is the type site for the Folsom tradition , a Paleo-Indian cultural sequence dating to between 11000 BC and 10000 BC .
A Folsom projectile point. Folsom points are projectile points associated with the Folsom tradition of North America.The style of tool-making was named after the Folsom site located in Folsom, New Mexico, where the first sample was found in 1908 by George McJunkin within the bone structure of an extinct bison, Bison antiquus, an animal hunted by the Folsom people. [1]
The projectile points and other remains found by archaeologists are examples of the Clovis culture (c. 9000 BCE) and Folsom culture (c. 8000 BCE). [8] Precipitation in the Jornada began to decline about 9000 BCE, resulting in less evidence of the presence of Paleo-Indian cultures.
Clovis fluted points are named after the city of Clovis, New Mexico, where examples were first found in 1929 by Ridgely Whiteman. [ 3 ] A typical Clovis point is a medium to large lanceolate point with sharp edges, a third of an inch thick, one to two inches wide, and about four inches (10 cm) long. [ 4 ]
The Palaeoindian culture lasts 4000 years, from 12,000 to 8000 BP. ... New Mexico, where in 1936 unique ... Folsom Tradition – (Culture group)
9000–8900 BCE: The Folsom culture in New Mexico leaves bison bones and stone spear points. 8700 BCE: Human settlement reaches the Northwestern Plateau region. [citation needed] 8000 BCE: The last glacial ends, causing sea levels to rise and flood the Beringia land bridge, closing the primary migration route from Siberia.
Folsom, New Mexico (Folsom Tradition), United States; Clovis, New Mexico (Clovis culture), United States: generally accepted as the type site for one of the earliest human cultures in the North America; La Plata County, Colorado (Basketmaker II period of the Anasazi culture), United States; Barton Gulch of the Blackwater Draw Paleo-Indian culture