Folsom Fluted Point Replica, Paleoindian Artifact

A finely made Folsom point with a concave base, small ears at the base corners and a long flute running most of the way up the face. The edges carry neat, parallel retouch scars that give the point its crisp, thin profile. Folsom points were made on the North American Great Plains roughly 12,800 to 12,000 years ago. In 1927 a point found lodged between the ribs of an extinct bison near Folsom, New Mexico, proved that people had lived in the Americas during the Ice Age, a turning point in Americ…

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