SOME 10,500 years ago Palaeoindian hunters slaughtered 32 ice-age bison at Folsom, New Mexico. The kill site was first spotted in 1908, and in the late 1920s fluted stone spear points were found lodged between some of the bisons’ rib bones. That fatal “Folsom point” has become iconic in American archaeology. Its significance in proving that humans inhabited North America at the end of the last ice age, and the investigations of the site over the past 80 years – including the major advances of the past few years – are splendidly recounted and assessed by David Meltzer.
Folsom
