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Mode 0 or Pre-Mode 1 stone tools are named after this site - see Stone tool: Nyayanga [15] 3.0–2.6 Nyayanga, Kenya East Africa Paranthropus (associated) Hominin remains, stone tools Some, e.g. Kathy Shick, [16] have suggested that the user of the tools may have been early Homo butchering Paranthropus as food. Masol [17] [18] 2.9–2.7 ...
The Clovis culture is an archaeological culture from the Paleoindian period of North America, spanning around 13,050 to 12,750 years Before Present (BP). [1] The type site is Blackwater Draw locality No. 1 near Clovis, New Mexico, where stone tools were found alongside the remains of Columbian mammoths in 1929. [2]
The Anzick Site (registered as 24PA506) at about the elevation of the bottom of the hillside below the arrow, is the only known Clovis burial site in North America In 1961, while hunting marmots at a sandstone outcrop on the Anzick family property, about one mile south of Wilsall , Montana, Bill Roy Bray found a stone projectile point and bones ...
The Folsom site was excavated in 1926 and found to have been a marsh-side kill site or camp where 32 bison had been killed using distinctive tools, known as Folsom points. This site is significant because it was the first time that artifacts indisputably made by humans were found directly associated with faunal remains from an extinct form of ...
Clovis points collected in 1807 at Bone Lick, Kentucky. Clovis points have been found over most of North America and, less commonly, as far south as Venezuela. [20] [21] One issue is that the sea level is now about 50 meters higher than in the Paleoindian period so any coastal sites would be underwater, which may be skewing the data. [22]
The Old Copper complex of the Western Great Lakes is the best known, and can be dated as far back as 9,500 years ago. [4] [1] Great Lakes natives of the Archaic period located 99% pure copper near Lake Superior, in veins touching the surface and in nuggets from gravel beds.
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]
The most convincing evidence for a lithic stage is based upon data recovered from sites in South America, where such crude tools have been found and dated to more than 20,000 years ago. [ 5 ] In North America, the time encompasses the Paleo-Indian period , which subsequently is divided into more specific time terms, such as Early Lithic stage ...