These giant bison that became extinct about 10,000 years ago . The ones that the Folsom people had particularly specialized in hunting and as they're excavating the site in the first summer , they come across just sort of lying in the debris , a couple of points like they've never seen before , which are three or four inches long and have these thin flutes on either side at the base . There's one , there's , yeah , there's one right there .
Yeah . So they , one of the great things about the whole Clovis period to a little lesser extent , Folsom is that there are these spectacular blades that they did and sometimes they would do blades that were like eight or nine or 10 inches long . And there are some of them caches of some of these blades of that size that indicate they were never used .
The Joe Rogan experience . What happened with the Folsom story is that there was a , there was a flash flood on a river called the Dry Cimarron River in the August of 1908 . And in the aftermath of that flash flood , this African American cowboy , uh name Charles mcjunkin is out riding fence for one of the local ranchers seeing what he's gonna have to repair .
And within a decade , we discover the Clovis site which is out on the Texas New Mexico border . And the Clovis site is of these elephant hunters who are actually even older than the Folsom people . And this pushes when they're finally radiocarbon dated , that site pushes uh the dates back to the 13,000 year range .
All they know is that that particular bison species has been extinct for quite a while . Figgins says this site is 400,000 years old , but when we finally do get radiocarbon dating about two decades later , it looks as if a band of folsom hunters using ad adults using spear throwers had killed 32 bison antique in what had once been a box canyon on the southern plains 12,450 years ago . And so suddenly that discovery in the early 20th century in the 19 twenties gives America a kind of an antiquity that it had never had before .
