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  1. Characteristics of Paleo-Indians1234:
    • Belonged to hunting and gathering cultures.
    • Lived in small, family-based groups called bands.
    • Moved from place to place.
    • Ate wild foods, including plants, nuts, game, and fish.
    • Shared cultural traits with peoples of Asia, such as the use of fire and domesticated dogs.
    • Were the earliest people to inhabit the Americas.
    • Lived in a tundra environment and were highly nomadic.
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    Paleo-Indians belonged to hunting and gathering cultures. Such cultures are characterized by small, family-based groups called bands that move from place to place. They ate wild foods, including plants, nuts, game, and fish. They shared some cultural traits with peoples of Asia, such as the use of fire and domesticated dogs.
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    …Native Americans are known as Paleo-Indians. They shared certain cultural traits with their Asian contemporaries, such as the use of fire and domesticated dogs; they do not seem to have used other Old World technologies such as grazing animals, domesticated plants, and the wheel.
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    Paleo-Indians were the earliest people to inhabit the Americas. Between 30,000 and 11,000 years ago, small, highly mobile groups of hunter-gatherers extended their hunting areas throughout Beringia (the landmass that joined Siberia and Alaska) and into the Western Hemisphere.
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    The Early Palaeoindians lived in a tundra environment, on the fringes of deserts left by retreating glaciers. They lived in small, highly nomadic groups composed of a few families and probably totaling less than 20 individuals, and moved over large areas based on the availability of food resources.
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    Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period. The prefix paleo- comes from the Ancient Greek adjective: παλαιός, romanized: palaiós, lit. 'old; ancient'. The term Paleo-Indians applies specifically to the lithic period in the … See more

    Researchers continue to study and discuss the specifics of Paleo-Indian migration to and throughout the Americas, including the dates and routes traveled. The traditional theory holds that these early migrants … See more

    Due to the evidence that Paleoindians hunted now extinct megafauna (large animals), and that following a period of overlap, most large … See more

    • Adams County Paleo-Indian District – (Archeological site)
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    • Jablonski, Nina G. (2002). The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World. California Academy of Sciences. See more

    Sites in Alaska (eastern Beringia) exhibit some of the earliest evidence of Paleo-Indians, followed by archaeological sites in northern See more

    The haplogroup most commonly associated with Amerindian genetics is Haplogroup Q-M3. Y-DNA, like (mtDNA), differs from other See more

    The Archaic period in the Americas saw a changing environment featuring a warmer, more arid climate and the disappearance of the last megafauna. The majority of population groups at this time were still highly mobile hunter-gatherers, but now individual groups … See more

     
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  4. WEBPaleo-Indians belonged to hunting and gathering cultures. Such cultures are characterized by small, family-based groups called bands that move from place to place. They ate wild foods, including plants, nuts, game, …

  5. WEBPaleo-Indians, the earliest ancestors of Native Americans, arrived in what is now Wisconsin during or after the retreat of the last continental glacier, about 12,000 years ago. They built effigy mounds, of which at least 20 …

  6. WEBJul 26, 2023 · The current view of the Paleo Indian period envisions bands of hunters entering the North American continent around 17,000 years ago (15,000 BCE) by crossing a land bridge that connected eastern Siberia …

  7. WEBThe Paleoindian is the time of the earliest generally accepted arrival of people in the southeastern United States – about 16000 years ago, or 14000 B.C. Although earlier migrations of people into the New World …

  8. WEBPaleo-Indians were the earliest people to inhabit the Americas. Between 30,000 and 11,000 years ago, small, highly mobile groups of hunter-gatherers extended their hunting areas throughout Beringia (the …

  9. WEBMay 6, 2021 · Pre-Colonial North America (also known as Pre-Columbian, Prehistoric, and Precontact) is the period between the migration of the Paleo-Indians to the region between 40,000-14,000 years ago and …

  10. WEBNov 23, 2021 · Evidence of their lives in the Cuyahoga Valley is sparse—just single spear points and waste flakes. Crafting these points involved finding a good piece of flint, striking it with another stone, and …

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