Pre-contact is a term that’s bound for oblivion, I’m sure, because it’s Eurocentric. :’) What, only EUROPEANS were CAPABLE of CROSSING the OCEAN?!? RACIST! ;’) And, just like that, the Clovis-first-and-only people turn into Ezra Pound. Or some more appropriate analogy.
It's my Conservative nature to cling to favorite old words as they are being trucked to the landfill.
“Hominid,” for instance, now being replaced by the unpronounceable “hominin.”