List of Pre-Columbian Cultures - Northern America

Northern America

  • Paleo-Indians, ca. 18,000–8000 BCE
    • Clovis culture, 11,500–11,000 BCE, United States, Mexico, and Central America
    • Folsom tradition
    • Plano cultures
    • Cody complex
  • Archaic Period, 8000–1000 BCE
    • Paleo-Arctic Tradition, 8000–5000 BCE, Alaska and Yukon Territory
    • Watson Brake and Lower Mississippi Valley mounds sites, 3500 BCE-2800 BCE, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida
    • Poverty Point culture, 2200 BCE–700 BCE, Lower Mississippi Valley and surrounding Gulf coast
  • Post-archaic period, 1000 BCE-onward
    • Southwest:
      • Ancestral Pueblo culture, 1200 BCE–1300 CE, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico
      • Fremont culture, 400 CE–1350 CE, Utah and parts of Nevada, Idaho and Colorado
      • Hohokam, 200 CE–1450 CE, Arizona
    • Eastern Woodlands
      • Woodland period, 1000 BCE–1000 CE
        • Adena, 1000–200 BCE, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of Pennsylvania and New York.
        • Hopewell culture, 200 BCE–500 CE, Southeastern Canada and eastern United States
        • Troyville culture, 400-700 CE, Louisiana and Mississippi
        • Coles Creek culture, 700-1200 CE, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi
        • Plum Bayou culture, 700-1200 CE, Arkansas
      • Mississippian culture, 800 CE–1500 CE, Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States
        • Caborn-Welborn culture, 1400-1700 CE, Indiana and Kentucky.
        • Caddoan Mississippian culture, 1000 CE–1650 CE, Eastern Oklahoma, Western Arkansas, Northeast Texas, and Northwest Louisiana.
        • Fort Walton Culture, 1100–1550 CE, Florida.
        • Leon-Jefferson Culture, 1100–1550 CE, Florida.
        • Plaquemine culture, 1200-1730 CE, Louisiana and Mississippi.
        • Upper Mississippian culture,
          • Fort Ancient, 1000 CE–1650 CE, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia
          • Oneota, 900-1650 CE, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Missouri.

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