section_path: Chronology, culture and history/Paleo-Indian
section_name: Paleo-Indian
paragraph_text: Paleo-Indian
  
  The Mesoamerican Paleo-Indian period precedes the advent of agriculture and is characterized by a nomadic hunting and gathering subsistence strategy. Big-game hunting, similar to that seen in contemporaneous North America, was a large component of the subsistence strategy of the Mesoamerican Paleo-Indian. These sites had obsidian blades and Clovis -style fluted projectile points.