Return to Lindenmeier: A Folsom Landscape on the Edge of the Plains and Rockies

Summary

This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Herein we follow the trail of David J. Meltzer, who for the past 40 years blazed a distinct path through the Clovis and Folsom archaeological record. And though some of this is well-trodden territory, David foraged new insights regarding these ancient peoples through his historical scholarship, interdisciplinary research, and innovative field techniques. In this presentation, we return to the Lindenmeier Folsom site in northern Colorado, inspired by David’s similar efforts elsewhere. Though first noted a century ago and extensively excavated by the Smithsonian Institution in the 1930s, the Lindenmeier site has much to tell us about Folsom mobility and settlement systems. Our recent excavation suggests a bison kill and camp along its eastern margin, that when combined with previous investigations of the site, suggests a story of repeated visits to this favored hunting ground perched on the edge of the Plains and Rockies. Rather than supporting a single Folsom adaptation, Lindenmeier once again exemplifies the complexity of hunter-gatherer lives flourishing at the end of the Pleistocene.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• 2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part I

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Abstract Id(s): 51128