Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
People adapted by hunting bison and smaller mammals and gathering wild plants to supplement their diet. [12] A new cultural complex was born, the Folsom tradition, [2]: 30 with smaller projectile points to hunt smaller animals. [9]: 5 Aside from hunting smaller mammals, people adapted by gathering wild plants to supplement their diet. [12]
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 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 ...
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 ...
This list of the Paleozoic life of Colorado contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Colorado and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
At the end of the summer period the land became drier, food was not as abundant for large animals, and they became extinct. People adapted by hunting smaller mammals and gathering wild plants to supplement their diet. [3] Lamb Spring was an early to late Paleo-Indian site in Colorado, with Megafauna bison antiquus, camelops, mammoth and horse ...
People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America. University of Arizona Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-816-52913-1. Wilson, Gilbert L. Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians. St Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987. ISBN 978-0-873-51219-0
The Jurgens Site is a Paleo-Indian site located near Kersey in Weld County, Colorado.While the site was used primarily to hunt and butcher bison antiquus, there is evidence that the Paleo-Indians also gathered plants and seeds for food about 7,000 to 7,500 BC.