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The Paleo-Indians, also known as the Lithic peoples, are the earliest known settlers of the Americas; the period's name, the Lithic stage, derives from the appearance of lithic flaked stone tools. Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period.
The term "Paleo-Indians" applies specifically to the lithic period in the Western Hemisphere and is distinct from the term "Paleolithic". The population of the era consisted of small isolated groups of hunter-gatherers , who are thought to have crossed the Bering Strait from North Asia .
In the History of Mesoamerica, the stage known as the Paleo-Indian period (or alternatively, the Lithic stage) is the era in the scheme of Mesoamerican chronology which begins with the very first indications of human habitation within the Mesoamerican region, and continues until the general onset of the development of agriculture and other proto-civilisation traits.
Paleo-Indian individual persons primarily known through their remains. Pages in category "Paleo-Indian people" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
People of the Fire (8,000 BC): The transition of Native American culture from Paleo-Indian to Archaic, as a result of sudden climatic warming, in the High Plains and Western Rockies region. People of the Lightning (7,000 BC): The travails of an albino youth in Early Archaic Florida .
Examples of Clovis and other Paleoindian point forms, markers of archaeological cultures in North America. The Solutrean hypothesis on the peopling of the Americas is the claim that the earliest human migration to the Americas began from Europe during the Solutrean Period, with Europeans traveling along pack ice in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Plano cultures existed in the North American Arctic during the Paleo-Indian or Archaic period between 9000 BCE and 6000 BCE.The Plano cultures originated in the plains, but extended far beyond, from the Atlantic coast to modern-day British Columbia and as far north as the Northwest Territories.
The Cody complex is a Paleo-Indian culture group first identified at a Bison antiquus kill site near Cody, Wyoming, in 1951. [1] Points possessing characteristics of Cody Complex flaking have been found all across North America from Canada to as far south as Oklahoma and Texas.