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The Cody complex is a Paleo-Indian culture group first identified at a
''Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia''.
1998. , pp. 168-169. The sites are distinguished by their campsites, tools and butchering process. The tools, dated between about 6,000 and 8,000 BC, include Cody knives and Scottsbluff and diamond-shaped Eden projectile points.Shortt, Mack W
''Record of Early People on Yellowstone Lake: Cody Complex Occupation at Osprey Beach''
Yellowstone Science (11)4:5. Retrieved 10-3-2011.
The Cody complex is a Paleo-Indian culture group first identified at a bison antiquus
''Bison antiquus'', the antique bison or ancient bison, is an extinct species of bison that lived in Late Pleistocene North America until around 10,000 years ago. It was one of the most common large herbivores on the North American continent dur ...
kill site near Cody, Wyoming
Cody is a city in Northwest Wyoming and the seat of government of Park County, Wyoming, United States. It is named after Colonel William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody for his part in the founding of Cody in 1896.
The population was 10,066 at th ...
in 1951. Points possessing characteristics of Cody Complex flaking have been found all across North America from Canada to as far south as Oklahoma and Texas.
The tradition is generally attributed to the North American, primarily in the High Plains portion of the American Great Plains
The Great Plains (french: Grandes Plaines), sometimes simply "the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, an ...
. The discovery of the Cody complex broadened the understanding of late Paleo-Indian cultural traditions beyond the Folsom tradition. Most Cody complex sites were bison antiquus
''Bison antiquus'', the antique bison or ancient bison, is an extinct species of bison that lived in Late Pleistocene North America until around 10,000 years ago. It was one of the most common large herbivores on the North American continent dur ...
kill and butcher sites, and sometime campsites.Gibbon, Guy E.; Ames, Kenneth M''Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia''.
1998. , pp. 168-169. The sites are distinguished by their campsites, tools and butchering process. The tools, dated between about 6,000 and 8,000 BC, include Cody knives and Scottsbluff and diamond-shaped Eden projectile points.Shortt, Mack W
''Record of Early People on Yellowstone Lake: Cody Complex Occupation at Osprey Beach''
Yellowstone Science (11)4:5. Retrieved 10-3-2011.
See also
*Prehistory of Colorado
Prehistory of Colorado provides an overview of the activities that occurred prior to Colorado's recorded history. Colorado experienced cataclysmic geological events over billions of years, which shaped the land and resulted in diverse ecosystems. ...
* List of prehistoric sites in Colorado
This list of prehistoric sites in Colorado includes historical and archaeological sites of humans from their earliest times in Colorado to just before the Colorado historic period, which ranges from about 12,000 BC to AD 19th century. The Perio ...
** Horner site, the type site
In archaeology, a type site is the site used to define a particular archaeological culture or other typological unit, which is often named after it. For example, discoveries at La Tène and Hallstatt led scholars to divide the European Iron A ...
for the complex
** Jurgens Site
The Jurgens Site is a Paleo-Indian site located near Greeley in Weld County, Colorado. While the site was used primarily to hunt and butcher '' bison antiquus'', there is evidence that the Paleo-Indians also gathered plants and seeds for food ...
, a kill site, campsite and residential area
** Lamb Spring
Lamb Spring is a pre-Clovis prehistoric Paleo-Indian archaeological site located in Douglas County, Colorado with the largest collection of Columbian mammoth bones in the state. Lamb Spring also provides evidence of Paleo-Indian hunting in a ...
, a kill site
** Olsen-Chubbuck Bison Kill Site, an example of large scale cooperative game drive system
The game drive system is a hunting strategy in which game are herded into confined or dangerous places where they can be more easily killed. It can also be used for animal capture as well as for hunting, such as for capturing mustangs. The use of ...
* Plano cultures
The Plano cultures is a name given by archaeologists to a group of disparate hunter-gatherer communities that occupied the Great Plains area of North America during the Paleo-Indian or Archaic period.
Distinguishing characteristics
The Plan ...
References
Archaeology of the United States Archaeological cultures of North America Hunter-gatherers of the United States Native American history of Colorado Paleo-Indian period Pre-Columbian cultures Prehistoric cultures in Colorado 1951 archaeological discoveries {{PreColumbian-stub