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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 Ohio River valley, carving fine stone pipes placed with their dead in gigantic burial mounds. [1] See Prehistory of Ohio.
3000 – 1000 BCE Arctic Small Tool tradition: 2500 – 800 BCE Aleutian tradition: 2500 – 1800 BCE Poverty Point culture: 2200 – 700 BCE by Location Great Basin: Desert Archaic: Middle Archaic: Late Archaic: Great Lakes: Old Copper complex: c. 4000 – c. 1000 BCE Red Ochre people: c. 1000 – 100 BCE Glacial Kame culture: c. 8000 – 1000 ...
The categorisation of the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time is called periodization. [1] This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study. These can be divided broadly into prehistorical periods and historical periods (when written records began to be kept).
The Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian cultures lasted from roughly 1000 BCE to 1000 CE. The term was coined in the 1930s and refers to prehistoric sites between the Archaic period and the Mississippian cultures .
c. 1000 BCE-1000 CE – Woodland Period of Pre-Columbian Native Americans in Eastern America. 200 CE – Pyramid of the Sun built near modern-day Mexico City. 250–900 CE – Classic Period of the Maya Civilization; 600 CE – Emergence of Mississippian culture in North America.
Kunz Axe; 1000–400 BCE; jadeite; height: 31 cm (12 3 ⁄ 16 in.), width 16 cm (6 5 ⁄ 16 in.), 11 cm (4 5 ⁄ 16 in.); American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY, USA). The jade Kunz Axe, first described by George Kunz in 1890. Although shaped like an axe head, with an edge along the bottom, it is unlikely that this artifact was used ...
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
Typically, Archaic cultures can be dated from 8000 to 1000 BCE. Examples include the Archaic Southwest, the Arctic small tool tradition, the Poverty Point culture, and the Chan-Chan culture in southern Chile. The Formative stage; Defined as "village agriculture" based. Most of these can be dated from 1000 BCE to 500 CE.