Recent discoveries in northern Colo- 
rado of stone implements and weap- 
ons made by a race of men antedating 
modern Indians has aroused wide- 
spread scientific speculation as to 
the exact age in which the Folsom 
man lived, the circumstances under 
which he lived and the type of culture 
he had developed. 
Discovery of a Folsom man camp- 
site on the Lindenmier farm 30 miles 
north of Fort Collins gave impetus 
to the investigation of Folsom man 
which has been spurred by Folsom 
discoveries in the vicinity of Kersey 
by Forrest Powars, former Weld 
county commissioner. 
The Folsom campsite north of Fort 
Collins was the scene of excavation 
work last summer by representatives 
of the Smithsonian Institute which is 
continuing its excavation work this 
summer with a group of scientists di- 
rected by Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, Jr. 
As a supplementary investigation, 
the Smithsonian Institute has sent 
two investigators into Weld county 
to check upon Folsom discoveries 
here and, thru geological investiga- 
tions, ascertain, if possible, the ap- 
proximate date when Folsom man 
roamed this part of the country. 
Two Investigators Here 
The two investigators, Louis L. 
Ray, of St. Louis, teaching assistant 
in geology at Harvard University 
and Thomas W. Steptoe of Martins- 
burg, W. V.> Harvard student, have 
been at work in the vicinity of Kersey 
and Kuner since July 1 and plan to 
continue their studies until September. 
It may take another summer for them 
to complete the terrain study they 
have commenced. 
The problem of the two investiga- 
tors here is to make a study of the 
age-old river terraces in this part of 
the country with relation to the find- 
ing of Folsom artifacts. If the Folsom 
discoveries north of Fort Collins, at 
Kersey and at other points, are found 
to be upon the same geological ter- 
race, it will serve to identify the age 
in which Folsom man lived. 
They were formed at various periods 
of the Pleistocene or ice age and if a 
correlation can be made between cer- 
tain terraces here and the known in- 
vasions of the ice age in other sec- 
tions, as in Wisconsin, the age at 
which Folsom man was active here 
can be fairly closely estimated. At 
present estimates of the period of 
Folsom man’s residence here vary 
from 12,000 to 20,000 years ago, but 
these estimates are admitted guesses 
Discoveries West of Kersey 
The Folsom discoveries by Forrest 
Powars are a mile and three quarters 
west of Kersey. From this site Powars 
and his son, Wayne, who is working 
this summer with the Smithsonian 
group at the Lindenmeier site north 
of Fort Collins discovered by Major 
Roy Coffin of Fort Collins, have taken 
105 scrapers, more than 500 chips, 36 
pieces of broken arrow points. Some 
of the material taken from the Kuner 
site has been identified as of Yuma 
origin. Some ochre and charcoal also 
has been found at the Kersey site. 
At Kuner a Yuma arrow point has 
been taken from a small sand dune 
where it was found about two and a 
half feet below' the surface when a 
posthole was being dug. 
The Smithsonian scientists have 
made some preliminary investigations 
of the Kersey site which is on land 
leased by Powars, but owned by 
Sears Brothers of Cambridge, Mass. 
