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Alpacas were domesticated thousands of years ago. The Moche people of Northern Peru often used alpaca images in their art. [6] Traditionally, alpaca were bred and raised in herds, grazing on the level meadows and escarpments of the Andes, from Ecuador and Peru to Western Bolivia and Northern Chile, typically at an altitude of 3,500 to 5,000 metres (11,000 to 16,000 feet) above sea level. [7]
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North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Papua New Guinea: research, venom, pets Captive-bred Common in captivity, becoming rare in the wild 6c Other arthropods: Crested (Correlophus ciliatus) and suras geckos (C. sarasinorum) date uncertain New Caledonia: pets Captive-bred
The bean is native to Mexico and Central America and later began to be cultivated in South America. Indigenous peoples of North America began practicing farming approximately 4,000 years ago, late in the Archaic period of North American cultures. Technology had advanced to the point where pottery had started to become common and the small-scale ...
The Clovis culture, appearing around 11,500 BCE (c. 13,500 BP) in North America, is one of the most notable Paleo-Indian archaeological cultures. [35] It has been disputed whether the Clovis culture were specialist big-game hunters or employed a mixed foraging strategy that included smaller terrestrial game, aquatic animals, and a variety of flora.
By the end of the last ice age (10,000–12,000 years ago), camelids were extinct in North America. [3] As of 2007, there were over seven million llamas and alpacas in South America. Some were imported to the United States and Canada late in the 20th century; their descendants now number more than 158,000 llamas and 100,000 alpacas. [5]
Native American studies (also known as American Indian, Indigenous American, Aboriginal, Native, or First Nations studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues, spirituality, sociology and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, [1] or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas. [2]
In North America, the later stages are grouped instead into the Woodland period and Mississippian culture. Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America included for some cultures equivalents to Eurasian Copper Age and Bronze Age technology: In North America, cold copper working is found in the Old Copper complex, Hopewellian exchange, and Mississippian ...