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   ocr: always a basic feature of life for the Native American peoples living on the plains. As with the early Native American cultures of the eastern wood- lands, the atlatl was the principal weapon of Plains hunters. The practice of stampeding herds of game animals such as bison over cliffs was also common. While the Folsom Point dates human habitation of North America back to the last Ice Age, the search continues for evidence of even earlier people, and the question of when the first humans set foot on this continent remains open. 33