Anthropology 2231F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Folsom, New Mexico, Clovis, New Mexico, Radiocarbon Dating
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Lecture 2 part 1 discoveries post 1920s. Folsom, new mexico: 1926 paleontologist found stone artifacts among the remains of extinct bison, stone weapon tips are very distinctive called folsom points, most sites were in the american southwest. Blackwater draw locality #1 (clovis, new mexico: extinct forms of elephants/mammoths, were not identical to the ones at folsom, differ in size and shape. Both have a flute groove up the middle fluted/grooved. People had to be in north america before the end of the ice age (called the wisconsinan ice age in the ice age, happened between 20,000-11,500 bp) Pre-clovis/pre-projectile point/pre-paleoindian: sites dated before 11,500, mostly disproven, nothing really definitive. Bering strait: alaska/siberia region, so much ice that the ocean levels dropped which connected asia and. North america: area referred to as beringia, land mass existed at various times throughout the past, mostly the ice ages, land bridge existed between 25,000-13,000 years ago.