Meanings
- not comparablearchaeologyPertaining to Native American culture before circa 8,500 BCE.
Synonyms: lithic
plural Paleo-Indians
- Any person belonging to the first indigenous peoples who settled in the Americas or lived there before circa 8,500 BCE.
Synonyms: Paleo-American
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivePertaining to Native American culture before circa 8,500 BCE.
nounAny person belonging to the first indigenous peoples who settled in the Americas or lived there before circa 8,500 BCE.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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Paleo-Indian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Paleo-Indian
“Paleo-Indian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Paleo-Indian. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Paleo-Indian,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Paleo-Indian.
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