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   ocr: 37 FolsomPointa DURING A JOINT EXPEDITION IN 19Z1,ARCHEOLOGISTS FROM the American Museum of Natural History and the Denver Museum of Natural History discovered the Folsom Point near Folsom, New Mexico, embed- ded in the bones of a species of bison known to have been extinct for ten thousand years. At the time of its discovery, a group of America's leading archeologists was gathered for a conference a few hundred miles away in Pecos, New Mexico. The Folsom excavation team left everything exactly as it was and sent telegrams of their discovery to Pecos. The experts came, they saw, and they agree ...