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The land became drier, food became less abundant, and as a result many of the giant mammals became extinct. 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.
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 ...
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 early history of the Arkansas Valley in Colorado began in the 1600s and to the early 1800s when explorers, hunters, trappers, and traders of European descent came to the region. Prior to that, Colorado was home to prehistoric people, including Paleo-Indians, Ancestral Puebloans, and Late prehistoric Native Americans. [1] [2] [3]
Pages in category "Prehistoric cultures in Colorado" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Unfluted points were found on the Lindenmeier site from the Archaic and Late pre-historic periods and evidence of a late prehistoric kill site. The limited number of artifacts from this and other post-Folsom periods seem to indicate that the later people were more transitory than the people of the Folsom tradition or that there were limited ...