First
Arrivals | Ancient
America | Empires
| Culture Areas
| Depression
| Chronological
Table |
Chronological Table |
Year | North America | Meso-America | Yucatan | South America |
2000 (today) | Indian
Reservations Archeological Sites, Pueblos |
Pyramids | Maya temples | Inca ruins |
1500 | Columbus arrived | Aztec Empire | Mayapan | Inca Empire |
1300 | Anasazi | Chichimec invasions | Toltec-Maya | |
1000 | Pueblos in SW | Toltecs, Mixtecs | Maya collapse | Chimnu empire |
500 | Classic civilizations Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, El Tajin | Classic
period Chichen Itza, Uxmal |
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A.D. / B.C. | Anasazi, first pottery | Olmec civilization | Maya | Tiahuanaco |
500 B.C. | La
Venta San Lorenzo |
Formative period | Oldest metalworking in America | |
1000 B.C. | Agriculture in SW | Olmec, oldest Mexican pottery | Maya, first pottery | First ceremonial centers |
2000 B.C. | Pottery in SE | Permanent
villages Ocos, Oaxaca |
Permanent villages on the coast | |
3000 B.C. | Desert Culture | Semi-nomadic hunters | Pottery Columbia, Ecuador |
|
5000 B.C. | First agriculture experiments | Fluted
point near Guatemala City |
First
farming coast, highlands |
|
10 000 B.C. | Mammoth-kill sites | Hunting bands Patagonia, Andes | ||
13 000 B.C. | Wilson Butte Cave | Flea
Cave Ayacucho |
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25 000 B.C. | Man
in Alaska Old Crow |
Hunting
camps Tlapacoya |
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