Post AzFkEUja1Dn2RQN8xE by caten@mathstodon.xyz
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(DIR) Post #AzFkEUja1Dn2RQN8xE by caten@mathstodon.xyz
2025-10-16T02:08:46Z
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I was reading the Wikipedia page on the Clovis culture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture) of ancient North America, as one does, when I came across a mention of the subsequent Folsom tradition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folsom_tradition). I'm used to streets in Boulder having Native American names like Arapaho, but I didn't realize that Folsom, which has our math department at the end of it, was such a street.As you can read about at https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2015/02/23/george-mcjunkin-and-the-discovery-that-changed-american-archaeology/, Folsom is the name of a New Mexico town where the first evidence of these people was found. The discovery was made by a George McJunkin, who was quite the Western character. In addition to a name that sounds classically Western to my ear, McJunkin was a Black cowboy who was born into slavery in Texas but went on to become a rancher, archaeologist, and historian.#Wikipedia #history #Colorado #NewMexico #Texas #archeology #BlackHistory #NativeAmerican #Boulder
(DIR) Post #AzFkEVg4VkZtMpjr7o by mpmilestogo@cupoftea.social
2025-10-16T02:39:30Z
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@caten I studied and received an MA in anthropology in New Mexico. Was fortunate to work on the black water draw archeological site and the museum the school hosts. Halfway or so between Portales and Clovis New Mexico. Worked on later sites in Texas and then across a wild ans primitive area known as chupadero mesa. Archeology for almost two decades was the passion. Across the southern plains and the desert west. Forests and coastline of California. Fond memories and I love the names still. Flaked stone technology was a love affair then for me. Now I revel in watching documentaries and living vicariously. I do miss the doing of archeology. It was an active thing.