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Presented by Todd Surovell
Professor of Archeology, University of Wyoming
The Barger Gulch site preserves evidence of a Folsom cold season occupation dating to 12,800 years before present in an intermontane basin of Colorado. While many Folsom sites leave little archaeological materials (reflecting a highly mobile lifestyle), the people at Barger Gulch left behind tens of thousands of pieces of chipped stone as they overwintered here. Careful excavation of the site and analysis of the materials recovered have yielded evidence of Ice Age households. These are among the oldest houses ever found in the Americas. (More)
