Folsom :

by Meltzer, David J.

Additional authors: Balakrishnan, Meena.

Published by : University of California Press, (Berkeley :) Physical details: xiv, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm ISBN:0520246446; 9780520246447.

Subject(s): Folsom culture -- New Mexico -- Colfax County. | Folsom points. | Excavations (Archaeology) -- New Mexico -- Colfax County. | Animal remains (Archaeology) -- New Mexico -- Colfax County. | Culture de Folsom -- Nouveau-Mexique -- Colfax. | Pointes de Folsom -- Nouveau-Mexique -- Colfax. | Fouilles (Archeologie) -- Nouveau-Mexique -- Colfax. | Restes d'animaux (Archeologie) -- Nouveau-Mexique -- Colfax. | Indiens du paleolithique -- Nouveau-Mexique -- Colfax. | Folsom Site (N.M.) | Colfax County (N.M.) -- Antiquities.

Year: 2006

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Item type	Current location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
sw 900 - 999	Book Cart	978.92201 Mel (Browse shelf)	Available		106574

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-366) and index.

Introduction: The Folsom Paleoindian site -- Folsom and the human antiquity controversy in America -- Situating the site and setting the ecological stage -- Archaeological research designs, methods, and results -- Geology, paleotopography, stratigraphy, and geochronology -- Late glacial climate and ecology -- The faunal assemblage and bison bonebed taphonomy -- Artifacts, technological organization, and mobility -- Folsom, from prehistory to history -- Appendix A: Field procedures and protocols -- Appendix B: The Folsom diary of Carl Schwachheim -- Appendix C: Historical archaeology of the Folsom site -- Appendix D: Sediment mineralogy and bone preservation -- Appendix E: Defining Folsom: theme and variations.

Annotation The first comprehensive analysis of the original excavations (c. 1920s) and more recent archaeological and ecological research conducted at the Folsom, New Mexico bison hunting site, which established the Pleistocene antiquity of humans in North America and defined the Folsom paleoindian culture.

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Folsom :

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