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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 Mississippi
Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville, West Virginia, Adena culture. The oldest mound associated with the Woodland period was the mortuary mound and pond complex at the Fort Center site in Glade County, Florida. Excavations and dating in 2012 by Thompson and Pluckhahn show that work began around 2600 BCE, seven centuries before the mound-builders in Ohio.
500 BC–700 AD: Old Bering Sea culture thrives in the western Arctic; 50 BC–800 AD: Ipiutak culture thrives in the western Arctic. [1] 1 AD: Some central and eastern prairie peoples learned to raise crops and shape pottery from the mound builders to their east. 100–1000: Weeden Island culture flourishes in coastal Florida. They are known ...
Havana Hopewell culture (a Hopewellian culture) 200 BCE to 400 CE Goodall focus (a Hopewellian culture) 200 BCE to 500 CE Saugeen complex (a Hopewellian culture) 200 BCE to 500 CE Kansas City Hopewell (a Hopewellian culture) 100 BCE – 700 CE Armstrong culture (a Hopewellian culture) 1 – 500 CE Swift Creek culture (a Hopewellian culture) 100 ...
Mesoamerica is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, within which a number of pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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.
A majority of the world’s food supply originates from North America. Much of that was cultivated by the Native peoples who stewarded the land before the Pilgrims arrived. According to Gokey ...
The Antelope Creek phase was an American Indian culture in the Texas panhandle and adjacent Oklahoma dating from AD 1200 to 1450. [1] The two most important areas where the Antelope Creek people lived were in the Canadian River valley centered on present-day Lake Meredith near the city of Borger, Texas, and the Buried City complex in Wolf Creek valley near the town of Perryton, Texas.