List of Events
- 2000-1000 BCE: Poverty Point culture in northeastern Louisiana features stone work, flintknapping, earthenware, and effigy, conical, and platform mounds, as well as pre-planned settlements on concentric earthen ridges
- 1500 BCE: Salishan speakers arrive in Northwestern Plateau region.
- 1500 BCE: Natives of the eastern woodlands begin making pottery, a practice originated in Mesoamerica.
- 1500 BCE–1000 CE: Intermediate Horizon (or Campbell Tradition) emerged among Indigenous peoples of California
- Shell ornaments and copper items at Indian Knoll, Kentucky evidence an extensive trade system over several millennia.
- 1001 BCE: Athapaskan-speaking natives arrive in Alaska and western Canada, possibly from Siberia.
- 1001 BCE: Pottery making widespread in the Eastern woodlands.
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