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Aztec calendar (sunstone) Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE); the Archaic (before 2600 BCE), the Preclassic or Formative (2500 BCE – 250 CE), the Classic (250–900 CE), and the Postclassic (900–1521 CE); as well as the post European contact Colonial Period (1521–1821), and ...
2000 BCE– 250 CE. Classic period. 250 CE– 900 CE. Postclassic period. 900 CE–1500 CE. Columbian era. after 1500 CE. See also. List of archaeological periods (North America)
Mesoamerica. Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. [1][2][3][4] As a cultural area ...
Capacha culture extension Map. Capacha is an archaeological site located about 6 kilometers northeast of the Colima Municipality, in the Mexican state of Colima. This site is the heart of the ancient Mesoamerican Capacha Culture. The Capacha Culture peoples were located between the Jalisco Sierra Madre Occidental and the Colima Valley.
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, Louisiana and ...
e. The Archaic period, also known as the preceramic period, [1] is a period in Mesoamerican chronology that begins around 8000 BCE and ends around 2000 BCE and is generally divided into Early, Middle, and Late Archaic periods. [2] The period is preceded by the Paleoindian (or Lithic) period and followed by the Preclassic period. [2]
The Purepecha civilization emerged around 1000 CE in Mesoamerica. They flourished from 1100 CE to 1530 CE. ... Colonial Brazil (1500–1815) Decolonization
The Aztecs [a] (/ ˈ æ z t ɛ k s / AZ-teks) were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to the 16th centuries.