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Ancestral Pueblo culture, 1200 BC–1300 AD, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico—one of these cultural groups referred to as Anasazi; Fremont culture, 1 AD–1300 AD, Utah and parts of Nevada, Idaho and Colorado; Hohokam, 1 AD–1450 AD, Arizona; Eastern Woodlands Woodland period, 1000 BC–1000 AD
400: Ancestral Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest weave extraordinarily long nets for trapping small animals and make yucca fibers into large sacks and bags. 500: Late Basketmaker II Era phase of Ancestral Pueblo culture diminishes in the American Southwest. 700: Basketmaker III Era of the American Southwest evolve into the early Pueblo ...
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, or as the pre-Cabraline era specifically in Brazil, 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.
One of the most enduring classifications of archaeological periods and cultures was established in Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips' 1958 book, Method and Theory in American Archaeology. They divided the archaeological record in the Americas into five phases, only three of which applied to North America. [ 1 ]
The Ancestral Puebloans, also known as the Anasazi and by the earlier term the Basketmaker-Pueblo culture, were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.
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.
These pre-Columbian American culture areas may also roughly correspond to particular geographic and biological zones of the continent. During the thousands of years of native inhabitation on the continent, cultures changed and shifted. One of the oldest cultures yet found is that of the Clovis peoples. [1]
[citation needed] Native Americans benefited from the reintroduction of horses, as they adopted the use of the animals, they began to change their cultures in substantial ways, especially by extending their nomadic ranges for hunting. The reintroduction of the horse to North America had a profound impact on Native American culture of the Great ...