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• tradition is characterized by a finer, smaller, fluted point and a preoccupation with <br />bison hunting. Bison antiquus bones were associated with the artifacts at the <br />Lubbock Site and with the Linger Site of the San Luis Valley (Hurst 1941). The <br />earliest Folsom find near Folsom, New Mexico, in 1926 by Figgins and Cook produced <br />fossil bones of the extinct Bison antiquus in direct association with 19 projectile <br />points (Wormington 1957:23). Generally, the Folsom tradition is associated with the <br />High Plains Culture; however, a number of surface finds are known in western <br />Colorado (Wormington 1957:29; Jennings 1975b:29; and others). <br />The Plano tradition, the last of the Paleo-Indian period traditions, temporally <br />extends from 8000 to 5000 B.C. and is characterized by a variety of unfluted <br />lanceolate projectile point types. Associated dates vary from location to location <br />and point type to point Type. Scottsbluff and other Plano point types in western <br />Colorado are reported by Anderson and Lischka (1977:16), and in the Sand Wash Basin <br />by Jones and Jennings (1977:7). The latter report an Eden component at a site east <br />of Hiawatha in Moffat County, Colorado (ibid.:l3). <br />Various complexes associated with the Plano have been defined ai the Hell Gap <br />Site in Wyoming (Irwin et al., 1965:38). These include the Alberta, Cody, and <br />• Frederick Complexes. The Cody Complex here is dated at 6640+600 B.C. and is <br />characterized by Eden and Scottsbluff points and the distinctive Cody knife. The <br />flint working of this group was truly outstanding and represents the high point of <br />Paleo-Indian technology. The killpecker Dune Field Site is an extensive Cody Site <br />in southern Wyoming reported by Moss (1951) and Satterthwaite (1957). Agate Basin, <br />Scottsbluff, and Cody artifacts are known from the Pine Springs Site (Sharrock <br />1960:52-55); the Finley Site is another Cody Site in the area (Howard et al., 1941). <br />Both Pine Springs and Finley are in areas that show considerable subsequent use by <br />peoples of later traditions. <br />Since dates associated with the Plano vary from site to sire it is difficult to <br />assign absolute chronological indicators to the Plano. Frison et al. (1974:123) <br />speculates that the presence of Plano groups in the mountain areas of Colorado <br />probably ended about 5000 B.C. <br />Prior to this inventory, no evidence of Paleo-Indian occupation has been reported <br />in the vicinity of the study area; however, Paleo-Indian sites have been found in <br />similar environments and their presence in the area would not be unexpected. <br />• <br />2.8-4 <br />