Paleo-Indian

[ pey-lee-oh-in-dee-uhn; especially British �貹��-��‑ ]

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adjective

of, relating to, or characteristic of a New World cultural stage, c22,000–6000 b.c., distinguished by fluted-point tools and cooperative hunting methods.

noun

a member of the North American Indian people of this cultural stage, who are believed to have migrated originally from Asia and are known to have been expert big-game hunters.

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There’s a Paleo-Indian site at Wakulla Springs, a Calusa site on Mound Key, a project in Cuba and even a small canvas bag of fossils that a local beachcomber brought in.

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Paleo-Indians navigated chunks of melting ice left by retreating glaciers when they hunted woolly mammoths and caribou in the area 12,000 years ago.

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He said the Paleo-Indian people were hunter-gatherers and “more than likely semi-nomadic,” trailing water and game across the landscape and through the seasons.

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Native Americans first came to the site during the Paleo-Indian period to hunt Ice Age mammals, the Macon newspaper reported.

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“Before this, we really had no idea that Paleo-Indians were using salmon or fish of any kind,” said Carrin Halffman, an archaeologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and an author of the report.

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