Statement of Significance (as of designation - January 20, 1961):
Few, if any, sites can compare with this bison killing and processing area in the contributions it has made to the advance of knowledge about prehistoric humans in the Western Hemisphere. Dating to about 8285 B.C., it is the type site of the Folsom Culture. In 1926, scientists made the dramatic find of flint spear points embedded in the ribs of an extinct species of bison, confirming what had previously been only suspected regarding the early advent of humans in America.
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