1st Millennium BCE in North American History - List of Events

List of Events

  • 1000 BCE–800 CE: The Norton tradition develops in the Western Arctic along the Alaskan shore of the Bering Strait
  • 1000 BCE: Athapaskan-speaking natives arrive in Alaska and western Canada, possibly from Siberia.
  • 1000 BCE: Pottery making widespread in the Eastern Woodlands.
  • 1000 BCE–100 CE: Adena culture takes form in the Ohio River valley, carving fine stone pipes placed with their dead in gigantic burial mounds.
  • 500–1 BCE: Basketmaker phase of early Ancestral Pueblo culture begins in the American Southwest.
  • 300 BCE: Mogollon people, possibly descended from the Cochise tradition, appear in southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico.
  • 200 BCE–500 CE: The Hopewell tradition begins flourishing in much of the East, with copper mining centered in the Great Lakes region.
  • 1 BCE: Some central and eastern prairie peoples learned to raise crops and shape pottery from the mound builders to their east.

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