Input output: FEA and the art of knapping

Mechanical Engineering;  July 1, 1999 ;     691 words ......career, as an archaeologist. Interest in Folsom points has given rise to a subculture of archeologists...The last are people who try to make Folsom points themselves. (To knap is to break or...Pennsylvania. To try to understand how Folsom points were made, Pelcin had performed ...

FEA and the art of knapping.(using finite element analysis to reconstruct...

Mechanical Engineering-CIME;  July 1, 1999 ;     688 words ......career, as an archaeologist. Interest in Folsom points has given rise to a subculture of archeologists...The last are people who try to make Folsom points themselves. (To knap is to break or...Pennsylvania. To try to understand how Folsom points were made, Pelcin had performed ...

Clovis and Folsom age estimates: stratigraphic context and radiocarbon...

Antiquity;  September 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......projectile points - given the name Folsom points after the nearest New Mexico town...kill mammoths, while the more delicate Folsom points were used to kill smaller game, like...stratigraphically below a deposit containing Folsom points associated with bison skeletons. This...

Fluted point distribution in the Loess Hills of Southwestern Iowa

Plains Anthropologist;  November 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Clovis and Folsom points from Mills and Fremont counties...INTRODUCTION This study of 33 Clovis and Folsom points from the Loess Hills and adjacent...a shallower concave base than Folsom points. Folsom points typically have...

Pre-History Site Eroding

Albuquerque Journal;  August 14, 2002 ;     644 words ......from wallowing elk and cattle. The Folsom points about 24 in all were named for the...archaeologists, who in 1926 found some of the Folsom points left behind by the hungry hunters...found a point in the wash. Since then, Folsom points have been found in Texas, Oklahoma...

Midland Tradition

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology;      44 words ...Midland Tradition [CP]. Late Palaeo-Indian hunter-gatherer communities who flourished in the period c. 8700–8400 bc on the plains of North America. Characterized by distinctive hollow-based projectile points of similar outline to FOLSOM POINTS but lacking the central flute.

Software examines Folsom point mystery

Manufacturing Engineering;  March 1, 1999 ;     460 words ......flaking technique for manufacturing their arrowheads-called Folsom points. To date, no one has succeeded in understanding the method...additional research could help explain the construction of the Folsom points, and educate anthropologists and archaeologists about prehistoric...

FOLSOM CULTURE

Young Students Learning Library;      110 words ......bison. No human bones were discovered. However, the scientists believed these very old tools and weapons, which they called Folsom points, were used by a prehistoric people in the region. Since then, similar ancient artifacts and animal bones have been discovered...

McJunkin revisited.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)

Harper's Magazine;  September 1, 2005 ;     129 words ......near Folsom, in the northeast corner of New Mexico. In 1927 belated excavation revealed the arrowheads that became known as Folsom points, which suggested that humans had populated North America 7,000 years earlier than was previously thought. Clovis points...

Authentication analysis of the Angus Nebraska fluted point

Plains Anthropologist;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......and the artifact is thicker and more robust, than typical Folsom points. Also, on the basis of ratios of flute length to basal width...discovery of 1926 (Cook 1927; Figgins 1927), it was known that Folsom points had been found with extinct bison. In fact, in 1931, Folsom...

The Hot Tubb Folsom-Midland Site (41 CR 10), Texas

Plains Anthropologist;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......point-the Midland type -alongside Folsom projectile points in some assemblages. There...artifact collector who found three Folsom projectile points along the margins of a large...complete. An additional two or three Folsom projectile points were recovered during a subsequent...

Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America

Plains Anthropologist;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......west, Clovis is succeeded by the Folsom projectile point and associated assemblage. .." However, Folsom points are exceedingly rare in western...points that were contemporaneous with Folsom points were manufactured between approximately...

Transcendent views of nature; 'I see God in the landscape,' painter...

The Washington Times;  September 21, 2002 ;     535 words ...Byline: Joanna Shaw-Eagle, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Fred Folsom points to Morgan Ford, a mesmerizing riverscape that shows a favorite spot in the Shenandoah River. The Silver Spring artist is leading...

FEBRUARY EVENTS ROCK AT FORT COLLINS MUSEUM!

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 23, 2007 ;     325 words ......issued the following news release: Can you remember what the earth looks like beneath all the snow? Are you curious about Folsom points and archaeology? Chip away at the winter blues and discover something new at the Museum in February! Rock This Town: a new...

Early hunter-gatherers in the Americas: perspectives from central...

Antiquity;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......have had highly formalized and diagnostic technologies (Bryan 1986), as seen in bifacial fluted projectiles (Clovis and/or Folsom points(1)) or Palaeo-arctic microblades, This bias carries with it two presumptions which have no reason to exist: * Clovis and...