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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 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 ...
The Apishapa culture, or Apishapa Phase, a prehistoric culture from 1000 to 1400, was named based upon an archaeological site in the Lower Apishapa canyon in Colorado. [1] The Apishapa River, a tributary of the Arkansas River, formed the Apishapa canyon. [2] In 1976, there were 68 Apishapa sites on the Chaquaqua Plateau in southeastern Colorado ...
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. ...
Cowboy Wash is a group of nine archaeological sites used by Ancestral Puebloans (previously known as Anasazi) in Montezuma County, southwestern Colorado, United States. Each site includes one to three pit houses, and was discovered in 1993 during an archaeological dig. The remains of twelve humans were found at one of the pit house sites ...
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 ...