| 单词 | Palæo-Indian |
| 释义 | Palæo-ˈIndian, n. and a.
Also PalæoIndian, Palæoindian, palæo-Indian, and with prefix spelt Paleo-.
[f. palæo-, paleo- + Indian a. and n.]
A. n.
a. The culture of the earliest Indian inhabitants of the Americas.
b. One of these people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Palæo-Indians or their culture.
1940F. H. H. Roberts in Smithsonian Misc. Coll. C. 51 (heading) Developments in the problem of the North American Paleo-Indian. Ibid. 77 The morphological significance of the skeletons is considered..in conjunction with the other human remains attributed to the Paleo⁓Indian inhabitants. Ibid. 109 The work of recent years..demonstrates that there actually was a Paleo-Indian. 1941Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. LII. 2001 Evidences of the Paleo-Indian of the late Pleistocene or Early Recent times are present in Alaska. 1943Acta Americana I. ii. 194 The causes of this rapid and widespread disappearance [of Pleistocene forms of animals] are not known. It has been suggested that the Paleo-Indians may have been a contributing factor. 1959J. J. Honigmann World of Man xliii. 791 In Union County, New Mexico, a site containing remains of 32 bison, 19 projectile points, and other artifacts indicates a mass kill by Paleoindians. Ibid., The Paleoindian period yields none of the elaborate portable and mural art characteristic of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 454/2 The lake [sc. Lake Agassiz] influenced the movements of early man (paleo-Indian cultures), and artifacts typical of the period 5000–9000 b.c. are found around its margins. 1972Science 16 June 1211/2 Although the literature on North American PaleoIndians is quite extensive, most of this information has been derived from the analysis of kill sites, and only limited data on Paleo⁓Indian campsites have been available. |
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