What exactly is "Paleo-Indian"?

Question

This term was used in a history book I am using. I think I get the general drift, but I want to know more.

Answer 1

The Paleo-Indian period was the earliest firmly established era of human activity in the New World (10,000 - 8,000 B.C) and involved the spread of similar technologies and subsistence patterns in many parts of the continent. As elsewhere, it is represented in Manitoba by Clovis, Folsom, and Plano traditions and was dependent upon hunting of large game animals, originally extinct Pleistocene mammalian fauna and, later, the giant long-horned bison. This emphasis earned the first North Americans the title of "Big Game Hunters".

Answer 2

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Answer 3

One of the early American hunting people of Asian origin extant in the late Pleistocene (Earlier Quaternary epoch).

People that crossed to the American continent through the frozen waters between Russia and Alaska.

Note, the waters were frozen due to an ice age not just winter, or so the theory goes. Consider that all continental cultures came from the same path, just in different times in history.

Cheers.

Answer 4

One of the early American hunting people of Asian origin extant in the late Pleistocene

Answer 5

It refers to groups of indigenous people who are no longer extant in the Americas. Prime example would be the Anasazi of the American southwest.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The first two answers are correct. Beautiful

Answer 8

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

"paleo" means "old"
example: paleontology; paleozoic
though I might be wrong,so search it on www.wikipedia.org