the earliest designated Old World cultural period beginning about 750,000 years ago, characterized by the first chipped stone tools
Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
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Paleoindian
a cultural period from about 12,000-10,000 BP characterized by cooperative gathering and hunting, and the high mobility of small groups (bands) of people The Paleoindian (sometimes Palaeoindian) period is the first widely identifiable culture in the New World.
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