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 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 […]