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.