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Early Occupation of the Colorado Front Range*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Wilfred M. Husted
Wilfred M. Husted*
Affiliation:
Missouri Basin Project, Lincoln, Nebraska
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Abstract

Finds of Cody knives, Agate Basin, Allen, Clovis, Eden, and Meserve points indicate that the Colorado Front Range was occupied at least 7000 to 8000 years ago. Apparently Folsom hunters avoided the higher altitudes, but Clovis hunters may have crossed the Continental Divide.

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American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , April 1965 , pp. 494 - 498
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1965

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Submitted with the permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

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