Before Folsom: The 12 Mile Creek Site and the Debate Over the Peopling of the Americas

From: Plains Anthropologist | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: Hill, Matthew E Jr | Copyright information

Histories of American archaeology rightly point to the discoveries at the Folsom site as the turning point in the debate of a Pleistocene peopling of North America. However, this was not the first site where fluted projectile points were recovered in association with an extinct form of bison. In 1895 University of Kansas paleontologists excavated the 12 Mile Creek site in western Kansas and recovered an in situ fluted projectile point with the remains of 13 Bison antiquus skeletons. The site ...

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