Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Folsom site or Wild Horse Arroyo, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 29CX1, is a major archaeological site about 8 miles (13 km) west of Folsom, New Mexico. It is the type site for the Folsom tradition, a Paleo-Indian cultural sequence dating to between 11000 BC and 10000 BC. The Folsom site was excavated in 1926 and found to have been a ...
The Folsom tradition is a Paleo-Indian archaeological culture that occupied much of central North America from c. 10800 BCE to c. 10200 BCE. The term was first used in 1927 by Jesse Dade Figgins, director of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. [2] The discovery by archaeologists of projectile points in association with the bones of extinct ...
George McJunkin. George McJunkin (c. 1856–1922) [1] was an African American cowboy, amateur archaeologist and historian. McJunkin discovered the Folsom site in New Mexico in 1908.
A Folsom projectile point. Folsom points are projectile points associated with the Folsom tradition of North America.The style of tool-making was named after the Folsom site located in Folsom, New Mexico, where the first sample was found in 1908 by George McJunkin within the bone structure of an extinct bison, Bison antiquus, an animal hunted by the Folsom people. [1]
Listening Woman (1978) Dance Hall Of The Dead is a crime novel by American writer Tony Hillerman, the second in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series, first published in 1973. It features police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. It is set primarily in Ramah Reservation (part of the Navajo Reservation) and the Zuni village in New Mexico ...
October 3, 2022 at 5:30 AM. Theresa Clift/tclift@sacbee.com. Folsom City Councilman Michael Kozlowski said he has lived in a small trailer parked on a dirt lot for several months, not in a house ...
On October 14, 2014, the City of Folsom unveiled phase 1 of the Johnny Cash Trail to the public with a dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Rosanne Cash. Along the trail, eight larger-than-life public art pieces will tell the story of Johnny Cash, his connection to Folsom Prison, and his epic musical career.
Opened in 1880, Folsom is the state's second-oldest prison, after San Quentin, and the first in the United States to have electricity. [3] Folsom was also one of the first maximum security prisons. It has been the execution site of 93 condemned prisoners. [4] Musician Johnny Cash put on two live performances at the prison on January 13, 1968.