1 The First Peoples of Tennessee: The Early and Middle Paleoindian Periods (>13,450-12,000 cal BP)

The Early and Middle Paleoindian periods (>13,450-12,000 cal BP) encompass the time when the first people entered the Americas and the transition between the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs (Table 1). The early archaeological record of Tennessee is uniquely situated to explore questions that have both regional and national scal