One researcher on these peoples, Gary Haynes, has found evidence that the inhabitants of the Buttermilk Creek complex predates them.
One researcher on these peoples, Gary Haynes, has found evidence that the inhabitants of the Buttermilk Creek complex predates them. Tom Dillehay excavated another culture that is also thought to predate this one after a grad student found a mastodon bone at MV-I. In 1968, a construction worker found the well-preserved Anzick Boy, which was later confirmed to be a former member of this culture. These peoples would have to be from the Old World if the widely discredited Solutrean Hypothesis were to be accepted. The "Dryas overhunting" (*) hypothesis may explain their disappearance, since they may have hunted the wooly mammoth to extinction. The Folsom peoples are descendants of this other culture, whose best preserved artifacts are characteristically fluted arrowheads. For 10 points, name this pre-historic Indian culture whose tools have been found in New Mexico, and who are thought to be the precursors to all indigenous Native Americans.
One researcher on these peoples, Gary Haynes, has found evidence that the inhabitants of the Buttermilk Creek complex predates them.
Clovis culture