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  2. List of pre-Columbian cultures - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Woodlands. Woodland period, 1000 BC–1000 AD. Adena, 1000–200 BC, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of Pennsylvania and New York. Hopewell culture, 200 BC–500 AD, Southeastern Canada and eastern United States. Troyville culture, 400–700 AD, Louisiana and Mississippi. Coles Creek culture, 700–1200 AD, Arkansas ...

  3. Pre-Columbian era - Wikipedia

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    Human history. In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the initial peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to the onset of European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus 's voyage in 1492. This era encompasses the history of Indigenous cultures prior to ...

  4. Timeline of North American prehistory - Wikipedia

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    Timeline. 1000 BC–800 AD: The Norton tradition develops in the Western Arctic along the Alaskan shore of the Bering Strait. 1000 BC: Athapaskan -speaking natives arrive in Alaska and northwestern North America, possibly from Siberia. 1000 BC: Pottery making widespread in the Eastern Woodlands. 1000 BC–100 AD: Adena culture takes form in the ...

  5. Archaeology of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The archaeology of the Americas is the study of the archaeology of the Western Hemisphere, including North America (Mesoamerica), Central America, South America and the Caribbean. This includes the study of pre-historic/ Pre-Columbian and historic indigenous American peoples, as well as historical archaeology of more recent eras, including the ...

  6. Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    A qpGraph on the formation of Ancient Paleo-Siberians and Native American populations. [329] The date for the formation of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas gene pool ranges from 36,000 to 25,000 years ago, with their internal diverging being around 21,000 years ago, during the settlement of the Americas. [330]

  7. Clovis culture - Wikipedia

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    The Clovis culture is an archaeological culture from the Paleoindian period of North America, spanning around 13,050 to 12,750 years Before Present (BP). [ 1 ] The type site is Blackwater Draw locality No. 1 near Clovis, New Mexico, where stone tools were found alongside the remains of Columbian mammoths in 1929. [ 2 ]

  8. Prehistoric agriculture in the Southwestern United States

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    A map of the pre-historic cultures of the American Southwest ca 1200 CE. Several Hohokam settlements are shown. The agricultural practices of the Native Americans inhabiting the American Southwest, which includes the states of Arizona and New Mexico plus portions of surrounding states and neighboring Mexico, are influenced by the low levels of precipitation in the region.

  9. List of archaeological periods (North America) - Wikipedia

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    Periods in North American prehistory. Lithic stage. before 8500 BC. Archaic period. 8000–1000 BC. Formative stage. 1000 BC – AD 500. Woodland period. 1000 BC – AD 1000.