Lindenmeier Site
| Lindenmeier Site | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| National Historic Landmark | |||
 Lindenmeier site and surroundings |
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| location | Larimer County , Colorado | ||
| Coordinates | 40 ° 58 '47.6 " N , 105 ° 3' 44.1" W | ||
| NRHP number | 66000249 | ||
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| The NRHP added | October 15, 1966 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | January 20, 1961 | ||
As Linde Meier Site is an archaeological locality in Larimer County , in the northern US state of Colorado referred to the as the best-known evidence of prehistoric Folsom tradition holds. The site on the eastern flank of the Rocky Mountains is about 40 km north of Fort Collins in the Soapstone Prairie Natural Area .
Excavations
The site was discovered in 1924 after a landslide by children (or, according to other records, by collectors of prehistoric artifacts ) on the grounds of a rancher named William Lindenmeier, Jr. From 1934 to 1940 it was excavated by Frank Roberts, Jr. of the Smithsonian Institution , but was not properly published until 1978 , together with the publication of new investigations of the finds by Edwin N. Wilmsen in 1973/74. On January 20, 1961, the site was designated as a National Historic Landmark and purchased in 2004 by the Fort Collins city council along with the surrounding area. In 2006 new investigations took place.
The finds include tools, fireplaces, leftover food and the traces of stone work and indicate a much-used habitat of the Paleo-Indian hunters and gatherers . In addition to scrapers, blades made from knock-offs , needles and awls, among the tools were, above all, the projectile points with long surface retouches that are characteristic of the Folsom culture . For several generations, people must have stayed regularly at a silting lake and waited for bison , on whose hunt their culture was based. The oldest Folsom finds could be determined by 14 C-dating to 10,800 Before Present (~ 8850 BC), they belong to the beginning of the culture. The place had already been visited before (around 11,000 BP) by members of the previous Clovis culture , around 5000 BP also people of the Archaic period lived here .
literature
- Guy Gibbon: Lindenmeier Site. In: Guy Gibbon: Archeology of Prehistoric Native America. An Encyclopedia (= Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. 1537). Garland Publishing, New York NY et al. 1998, ISBN 0-8153-0725-X , pp. 456f.
- Edwin N. Wilmsen, Frank HH Roberts: Lindenmeier 1934–1974. Concluding report on investigations (= Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology. Vol. 24, ISSN 0081-0223 ). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC 1978, online .
Web links
- Soapstone Prairie Natural Area on the Fort Collins website
- City of Fort Collins: Soapstone Prairie Management Plan (Lindenmeier site from p. 31) (PDF file; 5.17 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Colorado. National Park Service , accessed July 20, 2019.