The Impact of Stone Supply Stress on the Innovation of a Cultural Variant: The Relationship of Folsom and Midland

Multiple hypotheses have been proposed to explain the relationship between fully fluted Folsom points and unfluted Midland points. One hypothesis, proposed by Hofman (1992, “Recognition and interpretation of Folsom technological variability on the southern plains.” In Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies, edited by D. J. Stanford, and J. S. Day, 193–229. Boulder: University Press of Colorado), is that mobile Folsom bands shifted from making Folsom...