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Paleoindian · c. 10,900 – 10,200 BCE

Middle Paleoindian

The fluted point horizon. Clovis occupies a startlingly brief window of about three centuries yet appears across most of the continent, and Folsom overlaps its close rather than cleanly succeeding it.

Date range
10,900 BCE – 10,200 BCE
Key terms
Clovis · Folsom · Fluting · Extinct megafauna

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Lessons from this period

Artifacts the Academy examines from Middle Paleoindian.