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antediluvian: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
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The term used for the early Holocene in the New World, from approximately 6000 bc to 1500?000 bc
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The chronological period in the New World that follows the Paleoindian period, begins at the end of the Pleistocene, and represents a period of cultural adaptation to the new, postglacial environment by Native Americans.
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In archaeology, this term is often used to designate an early period in a culture's history. In Greece it designates the chronological period that preceeded the classical period. In the New World the term refers to a period when permanent settlements were becaming more common and human groups were making the transition from hunting-and-gathering to agriculture. ...
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pertaining to a relatively simple period in the development of a particular region's art.
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