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===Prehistoric=== During the [[Pleistocene]] El Salvador was inhabited by now extinct [[megafauna]] species, including the elephant-sized giant ground sloth ''[[Eremotherium]]'', the rhinoceros-like ''[[Mixotoxodon]]'', the [[gomphothere]] (elephant-relative) ''[[Cuvieronius]]'', the [[glyptodont]] ''[[Glyptotherium]]'', the llama ''[[Hemiauchenia]]'', and the horse ''[[Equus conversidens]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cisneros |first=Juan Carlos |date=2005-12-30 |title=New Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from El Salvador |url=https://www.sbpbrasil.org/revista/edicoes/8_3/cisneros.pdf |journal=Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=239–255 |doi=10.4072/rbp.2005.3.09 |issn=1519-7530}}</ref><ref>Cisneros, J.C., 2008, The fossil mammals of El Salvador: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 44, 375–380. </ref> El Salvador has likely been occupied by humans since the [[Paleo-Indians|Paleoindian]] period, based on fluted stone points found in western El Salvador.<ref>“Las tradiciones Clovis y Cola de Pescado en Centroamérica” Anales de la Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala, LXXXVII (2012): 181–212. Guatemala, 2014.</ref>
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