PALEO-INDIAN CULTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Paleo-Indian culture mean? 

• PALEO-INDIAN CULTURE (noun)
  The noun PALEO-INDIAN CULTURE has 1 sense:

1. the prehistoric culture of the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America

  Familiarity information: PALEO-INDIAN CULTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALEO-INDIAN CULTURE (noun)

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Meaning:

The prehistoric culture of the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Paleo-American culture; Paleo-Amerind culture; Paleo-Indian culture

Hypernyms ("Paleo-Indian culture" is a kind of...):

civilisation; civilization; culture (a particular society at a particular time and place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Paleo-Indian culture"):

Clovis culture (the Paleo-American culture of Central America and North America; distinguished chiefly by sharp fluted projectile points made of obsidian or chalcedony)

Folsom culture (the Paleo-American culture of Central America and North America; distinguished chiefly by a thin finely made flint projectile point having the shape of a leaf)