Folsom tradition
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The Folsom Tradition is a name given by archaeologists to a sequence of Paleo-Indian archaeological cultures of central North America. Named by Jesse Figgins in 1927.
These cultures occupied the Great Plains and Great Lakes of the modern United States of America and Canada as well as adjacent areas to the west and south west. They are characterised by their use of Folsom points as projectile tips and their activities are generally known from kill sites where slaughter and butchering of bison took place and Folsom tools were left behind.
Some kill sites exhibit evidence of up to 50 bison being killed although the Folsom diet also included mountain sheep, marmots, deer and cottontail rabbit.
A Folsom site at Hanson, Wyoming also revealed areas of hardstanding which indicate possible dwellings.
The type site is Folsom, New Mexico, a marsh-side kill site found in 1926.
The Folsom Tradition is thought to have derived from the earlier Clovis culture and dates to between 9000 BC and 8000 BC.
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