Paleo-Indians
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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 word comes from the prefix paleo-, taken from the Ancient G
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.
The Mammut americanum (American mastodon) became extinct around 12,000–9,000 years ago due to human-related activities, climate change, or a combination of both. See Quaternary extinction event and Holocene extinction.
Diorama of a Paleoindian Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) hunting scene at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
Atlatl weights and carved stone gorgets from Poverty Point
Glyptodont
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Glyptodonts are an extinct clade of large, heavily armored armadillos, reaching up to 1.5 metres in height, and maximum body masses of around 2 tonnes. They had short, deep skulls, a fused vertebral c
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…Paleo-Indians Paleo-Indians hunting a glyptodont Heinrich Harder (1858–1935), c. 1920. The Paleo-Indians, also known as the Lithic peoples, are the earliest known settlers of the Americas; the period's…
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Doedicurus and Glyptodon by Robert Bruce Horsfall
Detail of Propalaehoplophorus scutes, early Miocene, in the permanent collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Peltephilus ferox