Which of the following statements best illustrates the difference between the folsom and clovis cultures? a. the folsom used wooden spear points, and the clovis used stone ones. b. the folsom hunted mammoth, and the clovis hunted bison. c. the folsom were farmers, and the clovis were hunter-gatherers. d. the folsom used smaller and more refined spear points than the clovis.

Your answer is c, The Folsom were farmers, and the clovis were hunter-gatherers

C.  The Folsom were farmers, and the Clovis were hunter-gatherers.

Explanation:

The Folsom Culture is a name given by archaeologists to a specific Paleoamerican archaeological culture that occupied much of central North America. The term was coined by Jesse Figgins in 1927. It is possible that the Folsom culture has derived from the more primitive Clovis culture, and dates from a time between 9000 BC. C. and 8000 a. C. Numerous Paleo-Indian cultures occupied North America, with some restricted to the Great Plains and the Great Lakes of the modern United States and Canada, as well as adjacent areas to the west and southwest. The Folsom Culture was characterized by the use by its inhabitants of the Folsom tips as projectiles, and by their activities, all collected from archaeological sites in which the bison were killed, and in which various utensils have been collected. Some of these sites exhibit evidence of more than 50 dead bison, although the Folsom diet also included goats, marmots, deer and rabbits. A Folsom field in Hanson, Wyoming, also revealed areas of possible settlements. The original site is Folsom, New Mexico, in Colfax County (29CX1), a place of slaughter near a marsh found in 1908 by George McJunkin, a cowboy, a former slave, who had lived in Texas as a child). The archaeological excavation was not carried out until 1926. In Mexico, in some places corresponding to the Lithic Stage, and especially to the Lower Cenolithic, folsom type arrowheads have been found, all in the Northern Altiplano. Among them we must mention Samalayuca (Chihuahua), La Chuparrosa (Coahuila), Puntita Negra (Nuevo León) and Cerro de Silva (San Luis Potosí). The clovis culture, or culture of Clovis or plain culture - in the south of the United States - was considered in the middle of the 20th century as the oldest indigenous culture of the American continent. Its calibrated radiocarbon dating indicates a period between 10 600 and 11 250 a. C. That time corresponds to the last years of the glaciation of Würm or Wisconsin (the last ice age). During most of the second half of the 20th century, discoveries about this culture sustained what is known as the "clovis consensus" of the American continent. From the last two decades of the twentieth century, new scientific research questioned the conclusions of the clovis consensus and provided evidence of the existence of much older Amerindian cultures.