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Even tougher for Hrdlicka are those mysterious creatures called the Folsom men, whose skeletons have never been found, but whose tools have turned up in abundance. "Folsom points" are weapons shaped like spearheads, with shallow grooves flaked out on each side. First Folsom find was made near Folsom, N. M., in 1926. The weapons were intermingled with the bones of long-extinct bison. Skeptical anthropologists first wrote off this association as accidental. Then Jesse Dade Figgins of Colorado, one of the Folsom pioneers, found two points actually between the ribs of a fossil bison. He left the exhibit undisturbed...
...more recently discovered Folsom site in Colorado, the Lindenmeier site, .appeared on geological evidence to be even older. A point was found there actually imbedded in a bison vertebra. Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts Jr., of Dr. Hrdlicka's own Smithsonian Institution, put its age at 20,000 years...
...scorer for the Funsters was defenseman Jim Gerrity who tallied three times, while Phil Downes and Jim Doughty each scored once. In the fourth game, Daughaday and Hamill each scored once for Leverett, while Gorham and Folsom, a spare, each netted one for the Coasters...
...somewhat different setup was reported by Treasurer Marion B. Folsom of Eastman Kodak Co., which has paid a "wage dividend" every year since 1912, excepting 1934, the amounts varying with common stock dividends...
...gravel on the cave floor indicated that the cave was inhabited soon after the water retreated from its mouth. Bits of charcoal showed the inhabitants to be fire makers. Dr. Steward viewed the skeleton as an important link between the well-known Basket Makers and the mysterious, much earlier "Folsom Men" whose bodily remains have not been found although they left an abundance of their characteristic "Folsom points"-stone weapons with a shallow groove chipped out on each side of the blade. Dr. Steward estimated the age of the Salt Lake child at 5,000 to 12,000 years...