Pre-Columbian_cultures Pre-Columbian_cultures The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 900 to 1500 A.D., varying a bit regionally. The Mississippian way of life began to develop around 900 A.D. in the Mississippi River Valley (for which it is named). Cultures in the Tennessee River Valley may have also begun to develop Mississippian characteristics at this point. The Mississippian (archaeological) Stage is usually considered to come to a close with the arrival of European contact, although the Mississippian way of life continued among their descendants. There are many regional variants of the Mississippian way of life, which are treated together in this article. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mississippian culture"
The Mogollon (pronounced mo-goi-YONE) were an American Indian culture lived in the American Southwest from approximately AD 700 until sometime between AD 1300 and AD 1400. The Mogollon show some similarities to cultures known as the Hohokam and the Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) who lived in surrounding areas at approximately the same time periods. The Mogollon and neighboring cultures emerged slowly from a people who had resided in the American Southwest since at least 9000 BC. Cultural distinctions emerged in the larger region when populations grew great enough to establish villages and even larger communities. Trade networks moving valuable goods also helped establish cultural traits which have been attributed to the Mogollon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mogollon"
Monte Verde is an archaeological site in south-central Chile, which is suspected to date back about 14,000 years, making it one of the earliest inhabited sites in the Americas. It puts into question the date at which humans began colonising the Americas, putting the accepted date back about 1000 years. ...more on Wikipedia about "Monte Verde"
The Paleo-Arctic Tradition is the name given by archaeologists to the cultural tradition of the earliest well-documented human occupants of the North American Arctic, which date from the period 8000–5000 BC. The tradition covers Alaska and expands far into the east, west, and the Southwest Yukon Territory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paleo-Arctic Tradition"
The term Patayan is used by archaeologists to describe prehistoric and historic Native American cultures that inhabited parts of modern day Arizona, California and Baja California, including areas near the Colorado River Valley, the nearby uplands, and north to the vicinity of the Grand Canyon, between AD 700-1550. Their nearest cultural neighbors were the Hohokam in central and eastern Arizona. The historic Yuman-speaking peoples in this region were skilled warriors and active traders, maintaining exchange networks with the Pima in southern Arizona and with the Pacific coast. ...more on Wikipedia about "Patayan"
The Plano cultures is a name given by archaeologists to a group of disparate hunter-gatherer communities that occupied the Great Plains area of North America between 9000 BC and 6000 BC. ...more on Wikipedia about "Plano cultures"
The Weeden Island Culture is defined as one of the many cultures in existence during the Late Woodland Southeast period, dating around 200 AD to 1000. They inhabited deciduous and pine forests near bodies of water near the Gulf coastal plain (between Florida, Alabama, and Georgia). ...more on Wikipedia about "Weeden Island Culture"
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