Paleo-Indian period

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Paleo-Indians (also spelled Paleoindians) were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period. The word comes from the prefix paleo-, taken from , and "Indian", which has been historically used to refer to Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The term Paleo-Indian applies specifically to the lithic period in the Western Hemisphere and is distinct from the term Paleolithic.

prehistoric culture in the Americas c. 13,000 – 11,000 BP

first human migration from Siberia

Paleo-Indian archaeological culture that occupied much of central North America

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'''Piki Mach'ay' (Quechua piki flea, mach'ay cave, "flea cave", also spelled Pikimachay, Piquimachay, where machay'' means "drunkenness", "to get drunk" or "a spindle packed with thread") is an archaeological site in the Ayacucho Valley of Peru. Radiocarbon dating from this cave indicates a human presence ranging from 22,200 to 14,700 years ago, but this evidence has been disputed and a more conservative date of 12,000 years BCE seems possible.

archaeological site in Brazil

the Late Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer societies of the Great Plains of North America

hominin fossil

North American prehistoric period before 10,000 years ago

late Paleo-Indian and Early Archaic projectile point tradition

archaeological site in Brazil