Folsom
New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20431049 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D J Meltzer (0000-0001-8084-9802, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Pages | 388 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Folsom (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/9780520932449 |
| OpenAlex | W4255191816 |
| ISBN | 9780520932449 |
| Open Library | OL29601783M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 71 |
In the late 1920s outside a sleepy remote New Mexico village, prehistory was made. Spear points, found embedded between the ribs of an extinct Ice Age bison at the site of Folsom, finally resolved decades of bitter scientific controversy over whether the first Americans had arrived in the New World in Ice Age times. Although Folsom is justly famous in the history of archaeology for resolving that dispute, for decades little was known of the site except that it was very old. This book for the first time tells the full story of Folsom. David J. Meltzer deftly combines the results of extensive new excavations and laboratory analyses from the late 1990s, with the results of a complete examination and analysis of all the original artifacts and bison remains recovered in the 1920s - now scattered in museums and small towns across the country. Using the latest 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, as well as a measure of Folsom's pivotal role in American archaeology.
Archaeological excavation · artifact analysis · bison hunting · Folsom points · human migration to the Americas · ice ages · New Mexico · Paleoecology · Paleoindian · Prehistoric archaeology · Archaeological and Geological Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Private Equity and Venture Capital · Animal remains (Archaeology) · Antiquities · California · Excavations (Archaeology) · Folsom culture · Maps · Paleo-Indians
Rocky Mountain Archaeology: A Tribute to James Benedict
Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments
Foraging Theory and the Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes
First Peoples in a New World
The Archaeology of Gender in Western North America
An Assessment of the Impact of Resharpening on Paleoindian Projectile Point Blade Shape Using Geometric Morphometric Techniques
The Pleistocene colonization and occupation of the Americas
A New Look at the Old Scottsbluff Bison Quarry
Pleistocene Human Settlement in the Southeastern United States
Setting the Stage
Gearing Up at the Adair-Steadman (41FS2) Folsom Site
Broken Bones and Hammerstones at the Cerutti Mastodon Site
The Impact of Stone Supply Stress on the Innovation of a Cultural Variant
On the Dating of the Folsom Complex and its Correlation with the Younger Dryas, the End of Clovis, and Megafaunal Extinction
Antelope Springs
On the Significance of Cutmark Distributions at the Badger Hole Folsom Bison Arroyo Trap, Southern Plains, USA
Evaluating Kill-Camp Organization in a Terminal Pleistocene Lithic Scatter
The Jake Bluff East Paleoindian Bison Butchering Feature, Northwest Oklahoma
Confluences
Bayesian Revision of the Folsom Age Range Using IntCal20
Bruce Huckell and the Folsom Record of the West Mesa, New Mexico
Buckner Ranch, Bee County, Texas (41BE2)
The Saga of Winkler-1
Parsing Fluted Point Technological Variability in the South-Central Ice-Free Corridor
Bison’s Achilles’ Heel
Folsom Point Diggings
How Archaeologists and Artifact Collectors Can—and Should—Collaborate to Comply with Legal and Ethical Antiquities Codes
What's the Point
Honoring Ambiguity/Problematizing Certitude
Foetal bison long bones and mortality season estimates at the early Holocene Casper and Horner II sites, North America
Geoarchaeology and the search for the first North Americans
The geoarchaeological and paleoenvironmental context of Paleoindian sites in western Middle Park, Colorado, USA
Archaeological mounds in Marajó Island in northern Brazil
Geoarchaeology of the Boca Negra Wash Area, Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico, USA
Controlled Overshot Flaking
Paleoindian archaeology of the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado Rocky Mountains
Gifts from an Archaeologist's Bookcase
The Gilded Age “Bone Wars” and the Birth of Paleoindian Archaeology
The Coffin Bison Kill (5JA7)
Taphonomic analysis of the Folsom bonebed at Lake Theo, Texas
Mollusc Remains from an Archaeological Rock Shelter Site on the Buffalo National River, Arkansas, Southeastern USA
Would North American Paleoindians have Noticed Younger Dryas Age Climate Changes
Replication as a Virtue
Description, Morphometrics, and Microwear of Two Paleoindian Fluted Points from Nebraska and Illinois
A brief history of bison zooarchaeological research in eastern Washington
On the Presumed Clovis-Age Structure at the Paleo Crossing Site, Ohio
A Multi-Method Approach to Dating
The Hot Tubb Folsom-Midland Site (41CR 10), Texas
New investigations at Bonfire shelter, Texas examine controversial bison jumps and bone beds
The pottery vessel from site 5LA3189
Archaeology of an Early 20th Century Carcass Disposal Pit, Division of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State College
Arrowheads, folklore, and documentary sources
Paleoindian Perambulations and the Harman Cache
The Evolution of Folsom Fluting
Different methods, different results
Linking Bones and Stones
The End of Archaeological Discovery
Jake Bluff
Parts and Wholes
Site Structure and Activity Organization at a Late Paleoindian Base Camp in Western Nebraska
San Patrice
Origin Stories, Archaeological Evidence, and Postclovis Paleoindian Bison Hunting on the Great Plains
Paleoindian Aggregation and Social Context at Bull Brook
Bone Surface Modifications, Reasonable Certainty, and Human Antiquity in the Americas
A Further Assessment of Paleoindian Site-Use at Bonfire Shelter
The Associational Critique of Quaternary Overkill and why it is Largely Irrelevant to the Extinction Debate
Fladmark + 40
Location and Position in Archaeology
Hannah Marie Wormington
Plains Paleoindian Projectile Point Penetration Potential
The 12.9-ka ET Impact Hypothesis and North American Paleoindians
| Citations per year | 3.55 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2027 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |