CO Site Reveals Info About Early People

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Summary

Pleistocene lake site in Colorado, excavated by National Museum of Natural History archeologist Dennis Stanford, reveals proof that early peoples were in the New World hunting mammoths, camels, and other ice-age animals earlier than previously known.

Subject

  • Stanford, Dennis J
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1977, p. 11

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

July, 1977

Topic

Archaeology

Place

Colorado

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