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The first people in Colorado were nomads, following and hunting large mammals using the Clovis point. As Megafauna became extinct, people adapted by hunting smaller animals, gathering wild plants, and cultivating food, such as maize. As the natives became more sedentary, there were significant technological and social advances, including basket ...
Paleo-Indian period – the first people who entered, and subsequently inhabited, the Americas during the final glacial episodes of the late Pleistocene period.Evidence suggests big-game hunters crossed the Bering Strait from Asia into North America over a land and ice bridge (), that existed between 45,000 BCE – 12,000 BCE, [1] following herds of large herbivores far into Alaska.
This list of the prehistoric life of Colorado contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of ...
Since the people of the Archaic–Early Basketmaker Era were nomadic hunter gatherers who roamed the Colorado Plateau to hunt game or gather seasonal wild plants, their homes were easily built. The bands of people generally inhabited rock alcoves or lived out in the open in brush shelters and lean-tos.
People adapted by hunting smaller mammals and gathering wild plants to supplement their diet. [9] A new cultural complex was born, the Folsom tradition, with smaller projectile points to hunt smaller animals. [8] [10] Aside from hunting smaller mammals, people adapted by gathering wild plants to supplement their diet. [9]
The LoDaisKa site is a prominent archaeological site in the U.S. state of Colorado, [1] located within a rockshelter near Morrison. The rockshelter was first inhabited by people of the Archaic through the Middle Ceramic period, generally spanning 3000 BC to 1000 AD.
This list of prehistoric sites in the U.S. State of Colorado includes historical and archaeological sites of humans from their earliest times in Colorado to just before the Colorado historic period, which ranges from about 12,000 BC to AD 19th century. The Period is defined by the culture enjoyed at the time, from the earliest hunter-gatherers ...
Acanthichnus – tentative report Acila † Acila chicotana Acmaea † Acmaea genettae – type locality for species † Adocus † Albanerpeton † Albanerpeton nexuosus † Albertosaurus – tentative report † Allantodiopsis † Allantodiopsis erosa † Allantodiopsis JC018 – informal Life restoration of the Late Jurassic theropod dinosaur Allosaurus † Allosaurus – type locality for ...