Folsom culture

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Paleo-Indian archaeological culture archaeological culture

Folsom culture was a Paleo-Indian archaeological culture of the North American Great Plains, best known for its finely made fluted projectile points associated with extinct Pleistocene bison hunting.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Folsom culture canonical	2
Folsom points	2
Folsom projectile points	1
Folsom tradition	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9158845 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Folsom culture
Context triple: [Cumberland culture, chronologicallyRelatedTo, Folsom culture]

A. Fremont culture
The Fremont culture was a pre-Columbian Native American archaeological culture of the U.S. Great Basin and Colorado Plateau, known for its distinctive rock art, pit houses, and mixed farming-hunting lifestyle.
B. Oneota culture
Oneota culture was a late prehistoric Native American tradition of the Upper Midwest, known for its distinctive shell-tempered pottery, large agricultural villages, and connections to ancestral Siouan-speaking peoples.
C. Mogollon culture
The Mogollon culture was an ancient Native American civilization of the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico known for its distinctive pottery, pit-house villages, and early adoption of agriculture.
D. Hohokam culture
The Hohokam culture was an ancient Native American civilization of the Sonoran Desert, renowned for its extensive irrigation canal systems and distinctive pottery long before European contact.
E. Cupisnique culture
The Cupisnique culture was an early pre-Columbian civilization on Peru’s northern coast, noted for its sophisticated ceramics and as a precursor to later Andean cultures such as the Chavín.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Folsom culture
Target entity description: Folsom culture was a Paleo-Indian archaeological culture of the North American Great Plains, best known for its finely made fluted projectile points associated with extinct Pleistocene bison hunting.

A. Fremont culture
The Fremont culture was a pre-Columbian Native American archaeological culture of the U.S. Great Basin and Colorado Plateau, known for its distinctive rock art, pit houses, and mixed farming-hunting lifestyle.
B. Oneota culture
Oneota culture was a late prehistoric Native American tradition of the Upper Midwest, known for its distinctive shell-tempered pottery, large agricultural villages, and connections to ancestral Siouan-speaking peoples.
C. Mogollon culture
The Mogollon culture was an ancient Native American civilization of the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico known for its distinctive pottery, pit-house villages, and early adoption of agriculture.
D. Hohokam culture
The Hohokam culture was an ancient Native American civilization of the Sonoran Desert, renowned for its extensive irrigation canal systems and distinctive pottery long before European contact.
E. Cupisnique culture
The Cupisnique culture was an early pre-Columbian civilization on Peru’s northern coast, noted for its sophisticated ceramics and as a precursor to later Andean cultures such as the Chavín.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Paleo-Indian archaeological culture ⓘ archaeological culture ⓘ
associatedWith	Bison antiquus NERFINISHED ⓘ Pleistocene megafauna extinction period ⓘ extinct Pleistocene bison ⓘ
chronologicallyEarlierThan	Plano cultures NERFINISHED ⓘ
chronologicallyLaterThan	Clovis culture NERFINISHED ⓘ
culturalRegion	Plains Paleoindian tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ
discoveredAt	Folsom site NERFINISHED ⓘ
economyBasedOn	big-game hunting ⓘ
evidenceType	camp sites ⓘ kill sites ⓘ lithic scatters ⓘ
follows	Clovis culture NERFINISHED ⓘ
geographicRange	from Texas to Montana ⓘ from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River region ⓘ
hasDiagnosticFeature	careful edge retouch on points ⓘ deep longitudinal flute on projectile points ⓘ thin, lanceolate point shape ⓘ
hasTypeArtifact	Folsom point NERFINISHED ⓘ
huntingStrategy	bison jumps and kill sites ⓘ communal bison hunts ⓘ
keySite	Agate Basin area NERFINISHED ⓘ Folsom site NERFINISHED ⓘ Lindenmeier site NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	bison hunting ⓘ finely made fluted projectile points ⓘ
locatedIn	Great Plains ⓘ North America ⓘ North American Great Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ
namedAfter	Folsom site NERFINISHED ⓘ Folsom, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Paleoindian period NERFINISHED ⓘ
primaryPrey	Bison antiquus NERFINISHED ⓘ
researchField	North American archaeology NERFINISHED ⓘ Paleoindian studies ⓘ
significance	demonstrated coexistence of humans and extinct Pleistocene bison in North America ⓘ refined understanding of post-Clovis adaptations on the Great Plains ⓘ
timePeriod	Late Pleistocene NERFINISHED ⓘ circa 11,000–10,000 years ago ⓘ circa 9000–8000 BCE ⓘ
toolMaterial	flint ⓘ high-quality chert ⓘ obsidian ⓘ
toolTechnology	bifacial stone tools ⓘ fluted projectile points ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cumberland culture → chronologicallyRelatedTo → Folsom culture ⓘ

Lindenmeier site → culture → Folsom culture ⓘ

Lindenmeier site → knownFor → Folsom culture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Folsom projectile points

Lindenmeier site → hasArtifactType → Folsom culture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Folsom points

Blackwater Draw site → hasArchaeologicalCulture → Folsom culture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Folsom tradition

Blackwater Draw site → hasFind → Folsom culture ⓘ