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Prehistory of Colorado provides an overview of the activities that occurred prior to Colorado's recorded history. Colorado experienced cataclysmic geological events over billions of years, which shaped the land and resulted in diverse ecosystems. The ecosystems included several ice ages, tropical oceans, and a massive volcanic eruption.
Paleontology in Colorado refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Colorado. The geologic column of Colorado spans about one third of Earth's history. Fossils can be found almost everywhere in the state but are not evenly distributed among all the ages of the state's rocks. [1]
The map of North America with the Western Interior Seaway during the Campanian. The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, or the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that split the continent of North America into two landmasses for 34 million years.
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 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.
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 Colorado. Precambrian [ edit ]
American Indians of Colorado Boulder. Frison, George C. (1978). Prehistoric Hunters of the Great Plains. New York. Jennings, Jesse D. (1974). Prehistory of North America. New York. Martin, Brenda, et al. (2009). The Excavation of Lindenmeier: A Folsom Site Uncovered 1934–1940; Rippeteau, Bruce Estes. (1979). A Colorado Book of the Dead: The ...