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Preferred term
Folsom culture
Definition
- The discovery in 1927 near Folsom, New Mexico, of distinctive stone projectile points in unambiguous association with bones of extinct Late Pleistocene bison provided the first widely accepted evidence for a human presence in North America greater than a few thousand years and initiated the field of Paleo-Indian studies in American archaeology. The discovery also inspired the notion that Paleo-Indians were specialized big game hunters. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Folsom Culture]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Folsom_culture
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