Blanco Canyon has been inhabited by humans for over
10,000 years. What happened to these people? Test your talents at solving the
mystery of the FIRST INDIANS.
| EXPLORERS AND SETTLERS Blanco Canyon has been inhabited by humans for over |
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FLINT KNAPPING A time honored craft. Folsom man was so deft that no one has yet explained the neat troughs he made on both faces of his javelin heads. Artifacts abandoned by Native Americans in Crosby County have been dated as early as 9200 B.C. Trade goods from the Pecos and Rio Grande River pueblos are commonplace. Pottery sherds alone date occupations from 1300 A.D. After 1541 the Plains Indian cultures had access to the Spanish horse adding to their already nomadic lifestyle. |
| A COMMISSARY ON HOOVES.... can only describe the buffalo. Primary use was for food but the hide was used for blankets, coats, shields, tepee covers and moccasins. The bladder was used as a canteen to carry water. This exhibit encourages you to handle bones, hoist a shield made of hide and imagine preparing your meals in the stomach which was used as a cooking vessel. |
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Don Francisco Vasquez de Coronado trod our canyons in 1541. More copper crossbow boltheads have been recovered in Blanco Canyon than in all other suspected Coronado expedition sites combined. He is now recognized as one of the most important people in American History. He mapped the southwest and staked a Spanish claim on an area larger than Europe, began the long war between the Europeans and the Native Americans, brought Christianity to what would be the United States, and introduced horses to the New World, a feat which brought mobility to the Plains Indians and changed their culture dramatically. Search for the SPIRIT OF CORONADO. |