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Howard and Cotter in the Clovis-Portales area and indicates that 

 the finding of a portion of a tusk at the Lindenmeier site was not 

 necessarily due to entirely fortuitous circumstances. The digging 

 at Dent was started by Father Conrad Bilgery, S. J., and a number 

 of his students from Regis College, Denver, and was completed by a 

 party from the Colorado Museum of Natural History. 6 



Other sites where implements of the Folsom type are found are 

 located in this same general area. One is near the town of Kersey, 

 Colo., about 7 miles east from Greeley, Colo. It was discovered 

 by F. L. Powars and his son Wayne, of Greeley, and the writer did 

 some work there in the summer of 1936. The other is 18 miles 

 northwest from Fort Collins, about 12 miles southwest from the 

 Lindenmeier, and was found in the fall of 1935 by T. Russell Johnson, 

 of La Porte, Colo. Some digging was doue there in the summer of 

 1936 by Miss Marie Wormington of the Colorado Museum of Natural 

 History. Neither of these two sites is as productive or extensive as 

 the Lindenmeier, but the objects found there are in close agreement 

 with those from the latter. 



From the evidence now at hand certain broad generalizations may 

 be made concerning the Folsom problem. No human remains 

 definitely attributable to that phase of American archeology have 

 been found. One skeleton from the Clovis-Portales region was 

 reported as a Folsom man, but there were no accompanying artifacts 

 to show that such was the case. Another purporting to be Folsom 

 came from a bank of the Cimarron River 8 miles east of Folsom. It 

 also had no associated objects that would aid in correlating it with 

 the makers of the fluted points and other implements characteristic 

 of the Folsom complex. 7 Both may be the remains of those people, 

 yet such a conclusion is not tenable without the support of accompany- 

 ing artifacts because both regions were occupied by other and later 

 Indian groups. Hence, it must be said that so far as his physical 

 characteristics are concerned, Folsom man is still an unknown person. 

 There is no information on the type of shelter he may have used. 

 On the other hand it seems obvious that he was a typical hunter 

 depending entirely upon game — mainly bison, but occasionally the 

 mammoth and a stray camel, deer, and antelope — for his mainte- 

 nance and sustenance. He no doubt supplemented his preponderant 

 meat diet with wild seeds and "greens" but did not cultivate his own 

 vegetal food. He probably did not settle long in one place but 

 traveled wherever the animals moved in order to support himself. 

 This factor unquestionably is linked with that of the spread of aborigi- 

 nal man to North America and the question of when that movement 

 began. There would be little incentive to migrate to a region where 



« Figgins, 1933. 



» Figgins, 1935; Roberts, 1937. 



