Historical Marker

Folsom Archaeological Site

Historical marker location:

NM Highway 72, Folsom vicinity, New Mexico

( 10 miles west of Folsom)

Near here an African-American cowboy, George McJunkin, discovered a spear point between the ribs of an extinct species of bison (Bison antiquus). This find established human presence in North America about 10,000 years ago, prior to the extinction of large mammals at the end of the last Ice Age.