Lindenmeier Site

40.979898 - 105.062256Koordinaten: 40 ° 58 '48 " N, 105 ° 3' 44 " W

As Linde Meier Site is an archaeological site in Larimer County, referred to in the north of the U.S. state of Colorado, which is considered the best -known evidence of the prehistoric Folsom culture. The locality on the eastern flank of the Rocky Mountains, located about 40 km north of Fort Collins in the Soapstone Prairie Natural Area.

The site was founded in 1924 by a landslide by children discovered ( or according to other traditions by collectors of prehistoric artifacts) on the site of a rancher named William Linde Meier, Jr.. From 1934-40 he was by Frank Roberts, Jr. excavated by the Smithsonian Institution, but only in 1978 suitably published, together with the publication of new studies of the former discoveries by Edwin N. Wilmsen in 1973/74. On January 20, 1961, the locality was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2004 and purchased by the City of Fort Collins along with the environment. Took place in 2006 new investigations.

The finds include tools, hearths, food remains and traces of stone processing and indicate a well-used living space of the Paleo-Indian hunters and gatherers. Among the tools were next scrapers, blades of discounts, needles and awls especially the characteristic of the Folsom culture projectile points with long surface retouching. Over several generations, people must have regularly stood outside on a silted lake and have been waiting for bison, their hunting -based culture. By 14C datings the oldest Folsom finds to 10,800 Before Present (~ 8850 BC) could be determined, so that they belong to the beginning of the culture. Even before (around 11,000 BP ) the place of members of the previous Clovis culture had been visited to 5000 BP, there were also people of the Archaic period.