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Image Not Available for Seeking the first Americans, 16 mm film
Seeking the first Americans, 16 mm film
Image Not Available for Seeking the first Americans, 16 mm film
Object Number 981-3-00/1.2.2
Display Title Seeking the first Americans, 16 mm film
Descriptions
Object Description finished film on archeological work which explores North America's earliest humans. Part one begins with a site that claims to have found an early campfire but this finding has no substantiation, then moves to discuss the work of archeologists who study clovis man 11-12,000 years ago NM, WY, their tools, the animals they hunted. Two different scientists present their theory of why clovis man spread so quickly, and theories rely upon finding out if there were earlier inhabitants before clovis man. Scenes of field interviews, excavation work at various sites, and educational graphics. color, sound, 31 min.
Department Photographic
Date 1980
Artist Public Broadcasting Service
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Wyoming
North America / United States / New Mexico
Materials Film
Quantity 1

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Image Not Available for Seeking the first Americans, 16 mm film, reel 1
981-3-00/1.2.1 Seeking the first Americans, 16 mm film, reel 1
Wyoming
New Mexico
Image Not Available for Myths of the mound builders, reel one. 16 mm film
982-16-00/1.1 Myths of the mound builders, reel one. 16 mm film
United States
Image Not Available for Stone projectile point, f luted
976-25-10/53126.1 Stone projectile point, f luted
Fluted Projectile Point
United States
Clovis points, from Turpin's Farm, Ohio (right), and Brashear's Farm, Kentucky
2004.24.31739 Clovis points, from Turpin's Farm, Ohio (right), and Brashear's Farm, Kentucky
Turpin Archaeological District
Image Not Available for Clovis-like point
99-12-10/53350.1 Clovis-like point
Fluted Projectile Point
Massachusetts
Image Not Available for Folsom point (clovis type) "without flutes"
46-58-10/27837 Folsom point (clovis type) "without flutes"
Projectile Point
Found in small blowout east of large blowout
CAST, blade
56-56-10/35398 CAST, blade
Cast
United States
CAST, projectile point, stemmed
56-56-10/35399 CAST, projectile point, stemmed
Cast
United States
Replica of a projectile point, Clovis type.  7 cm.
976-25-10/53126 Replica of a projectile point, Clovis type. 7 cm.
Fluted Projectile Point
Fake
North America
Image Not Available for Stone projectile point, fluted
976-25-10/53123.1 Stone projectile point, fluted
Fluted Projectile Point
United States
Image Not Available for CAST of Clovis fluted point- found associated with mammoth
51-21-10/33169 CAST of Clovis fluted point- found associated with mammoth
Dent
Stone projectile point, fluted, top half broken off
83-41-10/30734 Stone projectile point, fluted, top half broken off
Fluted Projectile Point
Cave?; Rock House?