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For instance, a Spanish map from 1548 depicts California as a peninsula, [8] while a 1622 Dutch map depicts California as an island. [citation needed] A 1626 Portuguese map depicts the land as a peninsula, [citation needed] while a 1630 British map depicts it as an island. [9] A French map from 1682 only shows the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
(1000 BCE – present) in North Norton tradition: Choris Stage: c. 1000 – 500 BCE Norton: 500 BCE – 800 CE Ipiutak Stage: 1 CE – 800 CE Dorset culture: 500 BCE – 1500 CE Thule people: 200 BCE – 1600 CE on Great Plains Plains Woodland: c. 500 BCE – 1000 CE Plains Village: c. 1000 – 1780 CE in Southwest and by Pecos Classification
This stolen map was Friar Antonio's, [12] and this quote provides evidence for the spread of knowledge of California as an island. As the Dutch were reputable cartographers, [2] it is thought that word of California as an island began to spread, as the majority of maps depicting California as an island were published after 1622. Throughout the ...
The archaeological La Jolla complex (Shell Midden People, Encinitas Tradition, Millingstone Horizon) represents a prehistoric culture oriented toward coastal resources that prevailed during the middle Holocene period between c. 8000 BC and AD 500 in southwestern California and northwestern Baja California.
The Woodland period (1000 BCE–1000 CE) is divided into early, middle, and late periods, and consisted of cultures that relied mostly on hunting and gathering for their subsistence. Ceramics made by the Deptford culture (2500 BCE–100 CE) are the earliest evidence of an artistic tradition in this region.
People first uncovered fossils around San Pedro High School in 1936. They were ancient shells belonging to snails and other mollusks from tens of thousands of years ago.
According to archaeologist Pieter Van Dalen, 1,000-1,200 years old mummies were probably relatives and placed one above the other in different parts of the tomb. [23] [24] In May 2022, archaeologists reported the discovery of 1,400-year-old remains of the Mayan site so-called Xiol on the outskirts of Mérida.