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	Archaeology Wordsmith
		The base of a Clovis point is concave and the edge of the base usually blunted through grinding, probably to ensure that the thongs, attaching the point to the projectile, were not cut.
		Folsom points are smaller, with their widest dimension near the middle rather than towards the base; more concave base than Clovis, and edges of Folsom points were retouched.
		The point of percussion is a visible excrescence on the core, a small scar on the struck flake.
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?category=&where=headword&terms=point (2263 words)

	Folsom Point From Oklahoma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Folsom is the first fluted point recognized as being very early and associated with extinct animals.
		This Folsom point was found in 1945 by Bob Decker.
		This point is made of Edwards chert and measures 2 1/4 inches long.
	lithiccastinglab.com /cast-page/aprilfolsom.htm (152 words)

	Folsom point - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Folsom points are a distinct form of chipped stone projectile points associated with the Folsom Tradition of North America.
		Named for Folsom, New Mexico where the first sample was found in the bone structure of a bison in 1927.
		Folsom points are found widely across North America and are dated to the period between 9500 BC and 8000 BC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Folsom_point (278 words)

	Art And The Folsom Point
		As stated previously, the Folsom flutes are created early in the projectile's manufacture while the Clovis technique, which is common to all basally thinned projectiles is to add the thinning flutes at completion.
		Folsom Replication Workshop in the Spring of 1997, most of the participates thought it was still too low.
		This is probably true to some extent, however the Folsom did utilize poorer material on occasion with equally good results and the later traditions occasionally employed the better material with no improvement in their workmanship.
	www.ele.net /art_folsom/art_fols.htm (3538 words)

	Folsom Point => Legal information
		The materials contained in the Folsom Point, LLC web site are provided by Folsom Point and may be used for informational purposes only.
		Folsom Point assumes no responsibility with regard to the selection, performance or use of these products or vendors.
		Folsom Point shall be free to use such information on an unrestricted basis.
	www.folsompoint.com /legal.html (335 words)

	Folsom History Museum
		Folsom might have faded away with the other camps had it not been for two pivotal events in 1856.
		Joseph Libby Folsom was born in New Hampshire in 1817 and he was an 1840 graduate of West Point.
		Folsom contracted with her to purchase title to Leidesdorff's San Francisco holdings and Rancho Rio de los Americanos for $75,000 dollars to be paid in three installments.
	www.folsomhistorymuseum.org /history.htm (2379 words)

	Folsom Period
		During the brief thousand year period of Folsom occupation, Native peoples were able to quickly adapt to a changing environment through modifications in resource use, weaponry and hunting strategy and to effectively exploit the giant bison which then roamed the grasslands in large numbers.
		The new projectile points had thinner blades and were smaller, possibly in response to the efficiencies of bison hunting or to facilitated hafting to a spear point.
		Folsom points may also have been a response to the advent of a new weapon.
	www.umanitoba.ca /faculties/arts/anthropology/manarchnet/chronology/paleoindian/folsom.html (631 words)

	Folsom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Folsom Tradition is a name given by archaeologists to a sequence of old Paleo-Indian cultures of central North America.
		The Folsom Point is the prototype of a spearpoint or arrowhead that was invented by Native Americans and widely-distributed in North America.
		The Folsom Library is a research library on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, located in Troy, NY.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Folsom (222 words)

	Folsom Points (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Folsom points represent perhaps the pinnacle of the flint worker's art in the Americas.
		No one knows whether this was to make the points thinner for hafting, to make them penetrate easier, or for some other purpose.
		Folsom hunters ranged the American plains more than 10,000 years ago.
	www.sdsmt.edu /wwwsarc/collectn/stone/folsom.html (73 words)

	Folsom Lake Kings Are Big And Feisty, Daniel Bacher, The Fish Sniffer Online
		King salmon fishing at Folsom Lake has been hit and miss this year, but the action has been exceptional this summer when the bite is on.
		Folsom, being the closest lake to the Delta is used by the Bureau of Reclamation to maintain Delta salinity standards in the West Delta when the state and federal projects are exporting massive amounts of water to the Westlands Water District and southern California.
		Folsom is also stocked with large numbers of catchable rainbow and subcatchable trout.
	www.fishsniffer.com /dbacher/040902folsom.html (1171 words)

	The Nature Conservancy in Iowa - 13) Folsom Point
		The Great Plains skink recently was discovered on the Folsom Point Preserve and is thought to be one of the few remaining homes for this species in Iowa.
		Folsom Point is one of the only areas where the northern subspecies and southern subspecies of the Leonard’s skipper butterfly meet and hybridize.
		Folsom Point Prairie protects one of the largest remaining contiguous prairie remnants in the southern Loess Hills.
	www.nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/iowa/preserves/art2217.html (419 words)

	Urban Dictionary: folsom
		It is the locale of the Folsom State Prison, which, contrary to a daffynition written by a prospective inmate from Hellay, is not named Pelican Bay.
		The man lived during an ice age, and the point is considered to be the most advanced stone age spear point ever discovered.
		When archaeologists found a Folsom Point embedded in the bone of a woolly mammoth, they were finally able to prove that man lived during the ice age.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=folsom (493 words)

	The Nature Conservancy in Iowa - 13) Folsom Point
		The Great Plains skink recently was discovered on the Folsom Point Preserve and is thought to be one of the few remaining homes for this species in Iowa.
		Folsom Point is one of the only areas where the northern subspecies and southern subspecies of the Leonard’s skipper butterfly meet and hybridize
		Folsom Point Prairie protects one of the largest remaining contiguous prairie remnants in the southern Loess Hills.
	nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/iowa/preserves/art2217.html (425 words)

	JMU - solometo
		The artifact is a sharp-edged fragment of a projectile point made of gray chert or flint, measuring 3.7 centimeters long by 2.8 centimeters at its widest point.
		The source of all the excitement was a projectile point carefully knapped by a ancient hunter, attached to a spear and thrown to kill bison.
		Folsom points, so named for the first such projectiles found in Folsom, N.M., in 1927, were often crafted from chert.
	www.jmu.edu /madisonscholar/JulieSolometo.shtml (1148 words)

	Folsom Point
		The Folsom Point, discovered near Folsom, New Mexico, in 1927, was crafted from flint some 10 thousand years ago.
		With the discovery of the Folsom Point, which was embedded in the bones of a bison known to have been extinct for 10 thousand years, the disagreement was resolved: the point was incontrovertible evidence that there were humans here as early as the Ice Age.
		The real Folsom Point is displayed in a cast of the bones in which it was embedded, re-creating the way this momentous discovery appeared to members of the expedition.
	www.amnh.org /exhibitions/expeditions/treasure_fossil/Treasures/Folsom_Point/point.html?acts (221 words)

	Artifacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This spear point dates to 10 thousand years ago, and it is one of the most important archaeological finds on this continent.
		The questions about when the first humans arrived in North America was settled with the discovery of the Folsom point which was found in the bones of a bison known to have been extinct 10 thousand years ago.
		The discovery of the Folsom point is the evidence of early existence of humans in North America as early as the Ice Age.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/artifacts/folsom_points.html (147 words)

	El Dorado County News - Lake access to be maintained - sacbee.com
		Folsom Chamber of Commerce and tourism officials voiced concerns about the economic impact the loss of 125,000 Folsom Point visitors annually would have on local businesses.
		The final environmental report on the Folsom Dam safety and flood damage reduction projects was released March 30.
		Comments on the report should be submitted by April 30 to Shawn Oliver, Bureau of Reclamation, 7794 Folsom Dam Road, Folsom, CA 95630, or e-mailed to soliver@mp.usbr.gov, and to Becky Victorine, Army Corps of Engineers, 1325 J St., Sacramento, CA 95814, or e-mailed to rebecca.a.victorine@usace.army.mil.
	www.sacbee.com /197/story/152621.html (896 words)

	Folsom point Manufacture
		The manufacturing process of a Folsom point is in reality the sum of a number of smaller processes termed "stages".
		Another factor affecting the number of the artifacts from the various stages in the archaeological record is the ability of the archaeologist to recognize an artifact from a given stage.
		The Folsom Point drawing at the top was furnished by Bob Patten.
	www.ele.net /folsom.htm (646 words)

	Lubbock Lake Landmark-1950-1951 Photo Gallery
		Profile where Folsom points and the bones of extinct bison were found at the contact between Bed 2 (banded) and Bed 3 (light gray), June, 1951.
		Folsom point found in place amid bones of extinct bison, June, 1951.
		Overhead view of Folsom point found in place alongside the bones of extinct bison, June, 1951.
	www.texasbeyondhistory.net /lubbock/50photos.html (495 words)

	Projectile Points Bibliography -- Tennessee Archaeology Net
		Copeland, J.M. and R.E. Fike 1988 Fluted Projectile Points in Utah.
		Cruxent, J.M. 1970 Projectile Points with Pleistocene Mammals in Venezuela.
		Hoffman, J.L. 1987 The Occurrence of Folsom Points in Oklahoma.
	www.mtsu.edu /~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/pointbib.html (11342 words)

	Folsom - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		- belonging to N American prehistoric culture: relating to a prehistoric culture of the southern plains of North America that made leaf-shaped flint projectile points with a concave base
		The Palaeolithic period ends around 10,500 years ago with the retreat of the glacial ice in the northern hemisphere.
		There is evidence dating from 10,000 to 15,000 years ago of human occupation in the area that is now Oklahoma; people of the Clovis and Folsom...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Folsom.html (94 words)

	Fatal Accident On Iron Point - Folsom Forum
		Story appeared in METRO section, Page B2 FOLSOM -- A 53-year-old wife and mother on a weekend shopping trip was killed in a car wreck Saturday by a teenage driver who was street racing, Folsom police said.
		The woman, driving a fl Toyota Solara, was pulling out of the Folsom Premium Outlets and turning onto Iron Point Road when a red Dodge Stealth broadsided her about 2:45 p.m., said Officer Michelle Beattie, Folsom police spokeswoman.
		I don't think its fair to generalize about "spoiled rich kids from Folsom." I think its a general lack of respect for speed and the safety of others that is prevalent in our culture.
	www.tomatopages.com /folsomforum/index.php?showtopic=11379 (1671 words)

	Center for the Study of the First Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This Folsom point, according to Titmus, “was an isolated surface find in 1950 on Lake Channel, a basaltic coulee located about 15 miles southwest of American Falls, Idaho.
		Of the Clovis point, Titmus says, “It was part of an ethnological collection assembled between 1866 and 1869 by Edward S. Storrer, a civilian surgeon stationed at Fort Lapwai on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, Idaho Territory.
		The Clovis point, made from chert, appears to be as first produced, not resharpened.
	www.centerfirstamericans.com /mt.php?a=58 (357 words)

	ARCHAEOLOGIST FINDS THAT 21st CENTURY FEA SOFTWARE CAN HELP TO SOLVE PREHISTORIC ENGINEERING MYSTERY
		The Folsom people, a group of Paleoindians who were first excavated near Folsom, New Mexico, populated the great western plains from Texas to Canada.
		Baker chose to simulate the experiment in which the ball hit the edge of a glass core with a 55-degree platform angle at a 70-degree angle of blow.
		He repeated the process of analyzing the model and adding a crack at the adjacent point of highest tensile stress until the flake broke away.
	www.algor.com /news_pub/cust_app/tbaker/tbaker.asp (1077 words)

	Ancient Native American Indian Artifacts, Relics and Arrowheads - Museum Page
		It's also interesting to note, that along with binding a point to a shaft with sinew or plant fiber, asphaltum (tar) was often used to cover the binding, and acted as a "glue", further strengthening the joining of the stone point to the wooden shaft.
		The large western point was well suited to kill a mammoth, whereas the other 3 eastern clovis points seem to be more suited to bring-down a smaller animal, such as a bison.
		This photo shows 3 Plainview points of different materials from 3 different states; The fl basalt point is from Arkansas, the brown chert point is from Texas and the white burlington chert point is from Illinois.
	www.westernartifacts.com /museum.htm (3313 words)

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		During construction, the Bureau of Reclamation is looking at closing Folsom Point Recreation Area for seven years.
		Under the plan, Folsom Point would be used as a staging area for construction equipment as well as a thoroughfare for trucks to move 1.5 million cubic yards of dirt to strengthen nearby Morman Island Dam.
		Folsom residents Casey and Trish Keller are upset over the plans that would close Folsom Point for seven years during the construction.
	www.news10.net /display_story.aspx?storyid=23701 (435 words)

	Clovis, Folsom People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A new point was slipped into the shaft and the mammoth was stabbed again.
		If the point remained lashed to the spear, there would be a greater chance of breaking them, and I feel these points were so important to the Clovis, Folsom people that this concept would provide better protection for the points.
		I have found that the flute on the Folsom point allows for a matching fit on the leg bone of a Mule Deer (which could have been used to deliver the Points).
	www.naturalfrequency.net /Ray/clovisfolsom.htm (343 words)

	Granite Bay Press Tribune : Top Stories
		Ann Lindner, right, Ellen Zenobia, center, and her 5-year-old son, Jack, join protestors and wave to passing cars Saturday in Folsom to encourage the recreation area at Folsom Point to remain open during dam safety construction.
		Hundreds of protestors showed up at the corner of East Natoma Street and Folsom Point on Saturday to protest a proposed seven-year closure of the recreation area by the federal Bureau of Reclamation.
		Folsom residents are worried they might lose access to the recreation area and park they use year-round.
	www.granitebaypt.com /articles/2007/02/03/news/top_stories/06folsom_point.txt (435 words)

	Boiling Point - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Boiling Point, temperature at which the vapour pressure of a liquid equals the pressure of the atmosphere above the liquid.
		Both the elevation of the boiling point and the depression of the freezing point are proportional to the lowering of vapour pressure, provided only...
		- crisis point: the point at which people lose their tempers or a situation becomes critical
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Boiling_Point.html (164 words)

	Home Page
		This subdivision is not subject to conventional zoning to permit clustering of residences.
		Folsom Bluffs is situated between the American River to the East, the American River Parkway to the West, Folsom Lake to the North and Lake Natomas to the South.
		Canada geese usually winter at Folsom Lake and there are heron rookeries on Anderson Island Nature Preserve and the south shore of Lake Natoma.
	folsombluffs.org /index.html (379 words)

	Roseville Press Tribune : Top Stories
		A public information meeting on proposed improvements to Folsom Dam and Reservoir will be held in Folsom from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
		Members of the community will be able to learn more about construction projects planned for the dam over the next 10 to 15 years, as well as share comments and suggestions directly with the agencies.
		The draft study's proposal to close Folsom Point recreation area until 2013 sparked a massive public outcry last month, leading to the formation of Citizens Against the Closure of Folsom Point and a protest at Folsom Point's entrance that drew hundreds.
	www.rosevillept.com /articles/2007/02/14/news/top_stories/01folsom_dam.txt (443 words)

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