ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE FOLSOM 

 COMPLEX 



Report on the Second Season's Investigations at the 



LiNDENMEIER SiTE IN NORTHERN COLORADO 



By frank H. H. ROBERTS, JR. 



ArcJieologist, Bureau of American Ethnolflfjy 



(With 12 Plates) 

 INTRODUCTION 



During the summer of 1935 further investigations were conducted 

 at the Lindenmeier site in northern Colorado. It was at this location 

 that the first definite complex of stone implements attributable to 

 Folsom man was found in situ in the autumn of 1934.' From the first 

 of June until early September the writer and a group of associates 

 carried on a series of excavations in an effort to obtain more informa- 

 tion on this little-known phase of American archeology. The results 

 were gratifying in some respects but in others fell short of expecta- 

 tions. The digging yielded 750 artifacts, large quantities of chipper's 

 debris — innumerable fragments of stone forming a byproduct of the 

 tool-making industry — and several deposits of bones from animals 

 whose flesh or skins had been used by the one-time dwellers at the 

 site. No human skeletal material was found. This was disappointing, 

 inasmuch as all interested in the subject are anxious to know what 

 the people are like who made the implements. Fragments of charcoal 

 and scattered ashes were plentiful, but no indications of a shelter or 

 habitation were observed. The presence of hammerstones accompa- 

 nied by chips and flakes was noted at a number of places. These sug- 

 gested that one or more individuals had been seated there while shap- 

 ing tools out of rough stone nodules. Pieces of several projectile 

 points, as well as other implements, that had been broken in the making 

 were obtained from one such spot. By fitting the fragments together 

 and restoring the flakes it is possible to gain good evidence concerning 

 the technique used in manufacturing the tools. 



Dr. Kirk Bryan, of the division of geology, Harvard University, 

 assisted by Franklin McCann and John T. Hack, spent the month of 



Roberts, 1935. 



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