AN INDIANA FOLSOM POINT AND ITS BEARING UPON FOLSOM ORIGINS
By Richard Michael Gramly, Ph.D.American Society for Amateur Archaeology Ever since the finds at Folsom, New Mexico, made a case for man’s great antiquity in the New World (Figgins 1927) […]
FOLSOM IN THE ROCKIES – FRISON INSTITUTE STUDIES
By Marcel Kornfeld Director, George C. Frison Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Wyoming The Unive Wyoming (UW) Anthropology Department has long been engaged in studying Rocky Mountain Folsom […]
THE WASDEN OWL CAVE FOLSOM MATERIAL FROM EASTERN IDAHO
By Ruthann Knudson, Ph.D., RPA, and Susanne J. Miller Not all important Folsom sites have beautiful tool collections—some are pretty small and beat up! But they are no less significant—for […]
THE FOLSOM/MIDLAND CONNECTION
By Jeb A. Taylor Many Folsom sites contain both fluted and unfluted points. It is not known whether they were made by two separate complexes co-habiting the High Plains, a […]
THE FOLSOM MYSTIQUE
By Jeb A. Taylor Folsom points are surrounded by a mystique that is absent from most other types of projectile points. This is partly because in their early stages of […]
THE SHIFTING SANDS FOLSOM/MIDLAND SITE (41WK21)
By Tom Westfall Figure 1. Folsom and Midland points from the Shifting Sands site. There is a bias among some professional archaeologists which suggests that avocational collectors do considerable harm […]
Flint and Chert: A Chemical Form
James Tharpe, Plainfield, Indiana Flint is formed by chemical action on minerals that contain a compound of silicon and oxygen called silica. Water dissolves the silica out of the minerals […]
How Extensive was the Folsom Tradition in North America
Edmund A. Butkus, Crown Point, Indiana Paleo fluted points have always been held in high esteem and have held a special fascination for both archaeologists and collectors since the first […]