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    Timeline of North American prehistory

    This is a timeline of in North American prehistory, from 1000 BC until European contact. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    1000 BC-800 AD: The Norton tradition develops in the Western Arctic along the Alaskan shore of the Bering Strait.; 1000 BC: Athapaskan-speaking natives arrive in Alaska and northwestern North America, possibly from Siberia. 1000 BC: Pottery making widespread in the Eastern Woodlands.; 1000 BC-100 AD: Adena culture takes form in the Ohio River valley, carving fine stone pipes placed with ...
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    The geological history of North America comprises the history of geological occurrences and emergence of life in North America during the interval of time spanning from the formation of the Earth through to the emergence of humanity and the start of prehistory.At the start of the Paleozoic Era, what is now "North" America was actually in the Southern Hemisphere.
  5. ancient-origins.net

    European scholars have noted evidence of ancient colonization of North America. After studying American Mounds and Earthworks, Dr C.A. Adolph Zestermann (Leipzig) wrote in 1851: "I can find no other explanation other than a gradual migration of a portion of the human family from one part of the world to another-from one hemisphere to the other.
  6. en.wikipedia.org

    One of the most enduring classifications of archaeological periods and cultures was established in Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips' 1958 book, Method and Theory in American Archaeology.They divided the archaeological record in the Americas into five phases, only three of which applied to North America. [1] The use of these divisions has diminished in most of North America due to the ...
  7. encyclopedia.com

    ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY OF NORTH AMERICAARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA. Settlement of the North American continent began at least 15,000 years ago, after the ocean level had dropped to expose a landmass beneath the modern-day Bering Strait. Source for information on Archaeology and Prehistory of North America: Dictionary of American History dictionary.
  8. britannica.com

    Jan 18, 2025Stone Age - Prehistoric Americas, Tools, Artifacts: The prehistoric sequence in the so-called New World shares many essential developmental features with the Old World and provides a test for generalizations about cultural development based upon Old World materials. In the New World there is evidence for an early horizon of early food collectors, followed by an increasing specialization of ...
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    Deep Time Maps™

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    This animation traces the history of North America's Western Interior Cretaceous Seaway from its inception in northwest Canada through its greatest extent from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico during the Turonian to Campanian (subdivisions of Cretaceous time, 94 - 77 Ma), to its demise in the Maastrichtian (Ca. 67 Ma).
  10. britannica.com

    5 days agoNorth America - Prehistoric, Geology, Plate Tectonics: The interval between about 1.3 billion and 950 million years ago began with continental rifting and culminated in the Grenville orogeny along the southeastern margin of the continent. Northwest-trending dikes were intruded in a short interval of time across the entire northwestern half of the Canadian Shield 1.27 billion years ago.
  11. shorthistory.org

    It is known that major migrations of prehistoric humans across Beringia may have begun around 12.000 years ago. That is why the earliest Native Americans, or Paleo-Indians, according to scientists emerge in scene around 12,000 years ago. It is known the most about western North American Paleo-Indian
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