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The Buttermilk Creek complex is the remains of a paleolithic settlement along the shores of Buttermilk Creek in present-day Salado, Texas. The assemblage dates to ~13.2 to 15.5 thousand years old. [1] If confirmed, the site represents evidence of human settlement in the Americas that pre-dates the Clovis culture. [2]
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 ...
Only a few documents were hidden and thus remain today, leaving modern historians with glimpses of ancient culture and knowledge. From both indigenous American and European accounts and documents, American civilizations at the time of European encounter possessed many impressive attributes, having populous cities, and having developed theories ...
Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before European colonization have been difficult to establish. Estimates have varied widely from as low as 8 million to as many as 100 million, though many scholars gravitated toward an estimate of around 50 million by the end of the 20th century. [1] [2]
Indigenous Peoples' Day is Monday, Oct. 14, and has been federally recognized since 2021 to celebrate indigenous communities and cultures.
The culture thrived from 2200 BCE to 700 BCE, during the Late Archaic period. [16] Evidence of this culture has been found at more than 100 sites, from the major complex at Poverty Point, Louisiana (a UNESCO World Heritage site) across a 100-mile (160 km) range to the Jaketown Site near Belzoni, Mississippi.
European colonization of the Americas had a major impact on Native American cultures through what is known as the Columbian exchange. Also known as the Columbian interchange , this was the spread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries ...
The Fort Walton culture continued to exist in the Florida Panhandle to the east of the Pensacola area into the period of European colonization.) Perhaps the best known Pensacola culture site is the Bottle Creek Indian Mounds site, a large site located on a low swampy island north of Mobile, Alabama.