Paleo-Indian
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- noun
- /ˈpeɪlioʊˈɪndɪən/
- Specialized
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paleoindio
- The first humans occupied the Pacific Northwest during the Paleo-Indian era roughly eleven thousand years ago.
- Paleo-Indians hunted
Examples
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Some scientists have speculated that Paleo-Indians may have hunted some of the creatures to extinction.
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We have in the Americas this long period of time that we call the, the, the Paleo Indian time where they were hunting megafauna.
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The first humans occupied the Pacific Northwest during the Paleo-Indian era roughly eleven thousand years ago.
Academic text (2005) -
Would any of them have been any less awed than we were to come upon a so-called Paleo-Indian hunter hurling a spear at a woolly mastodon?
Academic text (1995) -
Near Tampa, Jones found a Paleo-Indian site, uncovering the first evidence of Florida's earliest inhabitants 12,000 years ago.
Synonyms
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The scientific name for the modern human group, different from extinct species like Neanderthals
A person from the first groups of people to live in North or South America more than 10,000 years ago
A person who lived in the Americas more than 10,000 years ago and made stone tools
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Paleo-Indian comes from the prefix paleo- meaning 'old' and Indian meaning 'people of the Americas' as that older name was used for native groups. Think of paleo- like in Paleolithic, which talks about very old times. So Paleo-Indian means the very earliest people who lived in North and South America.