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CLOVIS CULTURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Paleo-American culture of Central America and North America; distinguished chiefly by sharp fluted projectile points made of obsidian or chalcedony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Clovis culture" is a kind of...):
Paleo-American culture; Paleo-Amerind culture; Paleo-Indian culture (the prehistoric culture of the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America)
Domain category:
archaeology; archeology (the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures)
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