Folsom Culture (Noun)
Meaning
The Paleo-American culture of Central America and North America; distinguished chiefly by a thin finely made flint projectile point having the shape of a leaf.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The Folsom culture was a Paleo-American culture of the United States and southern Canada, flourishing between 9000 to 8000 BCE.
- Historians have discovered Folsom culture remains across the Great Plains of the United States.
- Historians once believed the Folsom culture to have been the first humans in North America.
- Archaeologists often date the Folsom culture using the remains of long-extinct species of bison found with its characteristic projectile points.
- One key characteristic of the Folsom culture was the finely crafted stone point, a thin leaf-shaped flint projectile point named after the Folsom site.