Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Folsom, New Mexico
18 Jul 2012
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Lecture 5 part 2 archaeology in the americas. Cultural history: 1914-1960: focused on the first goal of archaeology: chronology of local sequences and comparative sequences, first real attempts by archaeologists to carry out investigations that were seen in europe. Stratigraphic excavations, new ways of dating sites: important contributors: Nels nelson: pioneered ways of dating by using archaeological methods, also invented frequency seriation. Frequencies of objects over time, can get fine changes over time: discoveries made: Used to belief that native peoples had only been in the. Americas for a very short period of time; about 2000- Bone bed of extinct bison found with stone points, named folsom points. Proved that people had been in the americas for at least. Geologists argued it was at least 12,000 years old. Discoveries throughout 1930s there were several more sites discovered with similar artifacts; confirmed deep history in the americas. Growing dissatisfaction with just discovering sequences in the.
