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 | | The major purpose of the 1920s excavation was to recover bison skeletons for museum display, and once the site’s archaeological significance became known, to document the association of the artifacts with the bison skeletons, and determine the site’s age. |
 | | Yet, our knowledge of the type site lagged behind, largely because of the narrow goals of the original excavations, the field and analytical methods in place at the time, and the few publications (many of which were merely abstracts or discussion comments) that ultimately emerged from that earlier work. |
 | | As a result, basic questions about the Folsom site's geological history and stratigraphy, its age, the environment at the time of the occupation, how thoroughly and in what fashion Folsom hunters butchered the animals, the scale and extent of their settlement mobility, or how long they may have lingered at the site remained unanswered. |
| www.smu.edu /anthro/QUEST/Projects/Folsom.htm (703 words) |
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