Black Mountain, Mountaineer, and Folsom in the Southern Rocky Mountains

Summary

This is an abstract from the "*A New Look at the Southern Rocky Mountains: Crossroads of Western North America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Studies conducted over the past few decades have demonstrated that Folsom hunter-gatherers were persistent inhabitants of the Southern Rocky Mountains at the end of the Pleistocene. Recent work at the Mountaineer site and the Black Mountain site (as well as previous work in Middle Park and other sites in the Gunnison Basin) indicate that Folsom peoples were doing more than just seasonally visiting the mountains to hunt bison, and instead may have at times been permanent, year-round residents. Here we suggest that Mountaineer was a central residential base from which Folsom groups conducted off-site foraging, and that Black Mountain, and other smaller sites like it, represent those more specialized function, seasonally utilized foraging locations.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• *A New Look at the Southern Rocky Mountains: Crossroads of Western North America

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Abstract Id(s): 51986