Cody complex

The Cody complex is a Paleo-Indian culture group first identified at a bison antiquus kill site near Cody, Wyoming in 1951.^[1]

The tradition is generally attributed to the North American, primarily in the High Plains portion of the American Great Plains. 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 kill and butcher sites, and sometime campsites.^[2]

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.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b 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.
^ Gibbon, Guy E.; Ames, Kenneth M. Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia. 1998. ISBN 0-8153-0725X, pp. 168-169.

Indigenous peoples of Colorado

Overview

Outline of Colorado prehistory · Prehistory of Colorado

Contemporary peoples
native to Colorado

People	Arapaho · Cheyenne · Comanche · Jicarilla Apache · Kiowa · Pawnee · Shoshone · Ute

Reservations	Southern Ute Indian Reservation · Ute Mountain Ute Tribe

Major events	Battle of Beecher Island · Colorado War · Comanche Campaign · Sand Creek massacre

Prehistoric cultures
in Colorado

Paleo-Indian	Clovis culture · Cody complex · Folsom tradition · Goshen complex · Hell Gap complex · Plainview complex · Plano cultures

Archaic	Apex complex · Basketmaker culture · Mount Albion complex · Oshara Tradition · Picosa culture

Post-Archaic	Ancient Pueblo Peoples · Apishapa culture · Dismal River culture · Fremont culture · Panhandle culture · Sopris Phase · Tipi ring

Noted archaeologists	Cynthia Irwin-Williams · Paul Sidney Martin · Waldo Rudolph Wedel · Joe Ben Wheat

List of ancient dwellings of Pueblo peoples in Colorado · List of prehistoric sites in Colorado · Trail of the Ancients

Pre-Columbian North America

Archaeological cultures	North American pre-Columbian chronology – Adena – Alachua – Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) – Baytown – Belle Glade – Buttermilk Creek Complex – Caborn-Welborn – Calf Creek – Caloosahatchee – Clovis – Coles Creek – Deptford – Folsom – Fort Ancient – Fort Walton – Fremont – Glades – Glacial Kame – Hopewell (List of Hopewell sites) – Hohokam – Leon-Jefferson – Mississippian (List of Mississippian sites) – Mogollon – Monongahela – Old Cordilleran – Oneota – Paleo-Arctic – Paleo-Indians – Patayan – Plano – Plaquemine – Poverty Point – Prehistoric Southwest – Red Ocher – Santa Rosa-Swift Creek – St. Johns – Steed-Kisker – Tchefuncte – Tocobaga – Troyville

Archaeological sites	Angel Mounds – Bandelier National Monument – The Bluff Point Stoneworks – Cahokia – Chaco Canyon – Casa Grande – Coso Rock Art District – Eaker – Effigy Mounds National Monument – Etowah Indian Mounds – Eva – Folsom Site – Fort Ancient – Fort Center – Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument – Holly Bluff Site – Hopewell Culture National Historical Park – Kincaid Mounds – Kolomoki – Manitou Cliff Dwellings – Marksville – Meadowcroft Rockshelter – Mesa Verde – Moorehead Circle – Moundville – Mummy Cave – Nodena Site – Ocmulgee National Monument – Old Stone Fort – Parkin Park – Pinson Mounds – Portsmouth Earthworks – Poverty Point – Pueblo Bonito – Rock Eagle – Rock Hawk – Salmon Ruins – Serpent Mound – Spiro Mounds – SunWatch – Taos Pueblo – Toltec Mounds – Town Creek Indian Mound – Winterville

Miscellaneous	Ballgame – Black drink – Buhl woman – Calumet – Chunkey – Clovis point – Container Revolution – Eastern Agricultural Complex – Eden point – Effigy mound – Falcon dancer – Folsom point – Green Corn Ceremony – Horned Serpent – Kennewick man – Kiva – Metallurgy – Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing – Medicine wheel – Mound builders – N.A.G.P.R.A. – Norse colonization of the Americas – Piasa – Pueblo dwellings – Southeastern Ceremonial Complex – Three Sisters agriculture – Thunderbird – Underwater panther

Related: Genetic history · Indigenous Portal of North America · Pre-Columbian era

Cody complex

See also

References