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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.
The meat was likely dried for preservation, with 20 pounds of dried meat yielded from 100 pounds of fresh meat. It is thought that Paleo-Indians may have preserved butchered neck meat into pemmican , dried meat pounded into a powder, like later Plains Indians who found bison neck meat tough to eat.
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.
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]
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 ...
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. ...