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A member of the North American Indian people of a New World cultural stage, c22,000–6000 b.c., distinguished by fluted-point tools and cooperative hunting methods who are believed to have migrated originally from Asia and are known to have been expert bi

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  • In the desert interior, Paleo-Indian and Archaic cultures developed a remarkable expertise with wild plant foods.
  • Whatever the cause of extinction, the disappearance of big game fostered greater cultural diversity among Paleo-Indian groups.
  • Here Paleo-Indian, and later, more sophisticated Archaic big-game hunting cultures diversified over a period of more than 10,000 years, right into modern times.
  • The tool cache is one of only a handful of Clovis-age artifact caches that have been unearthed in North America, said Bamforth, who studies Paleo-Indian culture and tools.
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