FSEM 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Folsom Point, World'S Columbian Exposition, Femur
27 Aug 2016
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Give background on north america at the end of the last ice age, glacier melt, etc. On october 1st, 2015, steve nash, curator of archeology at the denver museum of nature and. Science showed us collections and artifacts : we saw and touched . Describe animals, artifacts, craftsmanship, how they were made, tool uses, genders, etc. Denver museum of nature and science: 4th largest in the country, 1908- founded, 1927- discovery of folsom point, 1935- 21-year-old du graduate becomes archeology assistant, 1937- hannah marie wormington becomes archeology curator at the museum. 1994- died in a house fire: 1968- museum receives a collection, 2006- 1st year that all curators had phds at the museum. Lindenmeier: north of fort collins, women and children existed and had jobs, people could not have survived solely on meat and big game, unsure of gender roles, uses atlatls and spears. Others were discovered by private collectors/landowners: female:
