Folsom Technology and Lifeways

This volume is an extensive collection of chapters discussing Folsom artifacts and sites, as well as innovative experiments undertaken to understand Folsom technology and lifeways. Public and private collections of Folsom artifacts were brought together with professional and amateur lithic analysts and knappers in an attempt to determine how the ancient stone tools were made and used. In addition, Folsom Technology and Lifeways summarizes interaction among knappers and analysts, and the attempts to replicate specific artifact types represented. It is a unique volume in that it examines the variation present in technology and behavior across a wide range of Folsom localities.

1. J. Clark and M. Collins, The Folsom Workshop Conferences2. B. Huckell and J. D. Kilby, Folsom Point Production at the Rio Rancho Site, New Mexico3. P. LeTourneau and T. Baker, The Role of Obsidian in Folsom Lithic Technology4. M. Kornfeld, Folsom Technological Organization in the Middle Park of Colorado: a Case for Broad Spectrum Foraging5. S. Ahler, G. Frison, and M. McGonigal, Folsom and Other Paleoindian Artifacts in the Missouri River Valley, North Dakota6. E. Gryba, Evidence of the Fluted Point Tradition in Western Canada7. L. Bement, Pickin' Up the Pieces: Folsom Projectile Point Re-sharpening Technology8. J. Morrow and T. Morrow, Exploring the Clovis-Gainey-Folsom Continuum: Technological and Morphological Variation in Midwestern Fluted Points9. D. Amick, Manufacturing Variation in Folsom Points and Fluted Preforms10. J. Clark, Failure as Truth: an Autopsy of Crabtree's Folsom Experiments11. T. Baker, Digital Crabtree: Computer Simulation of Folsom Fluting12. G. Titmus, An Analysis of the Folsom Preform13. P. Geib and S. Ahler, Considerations in Folsom Fluting and Evaluation of Hand Held Indirect Percussion14. K. Rozen, A Quantitative Experiment Concerning Folsom Fluting Methods and Fluting 'Success'15. B. Patten, Solving the Folsom Fluting Problem16. E. Gryba, The Case for the Use of Heat Treated Lithics in the Production of Fluted Points by Folsom Knappers17. M. Root, "...Heat Treatment and Knife River Flint Folsom Point Manufacture18. J. Gero, Phenomenal Points of Folsom19. P. Wilke, Bifacial Flake-Core Reduction Strategies and Related Aspects of Early Paleoindian Lithic Technology20. S. Ahler and P. Geib, Why the Folsom Point Was Fluted: Implications from a Particular Technofunctional Explanation21. J. Janetski, Modeling Folsom Mobility22. J. Hofman, High Points in Folsom Archaeology