For Immediate Release Contact: Pat Kremer (312) 665-7100 (For Media Use Only) Societies and Peoples Featured in The Ancient Americas Gallery Peoples and Societies Location Time Ice Age Americas Fishtail South America 11,000 to 10,000 BC Clovis North America 11,500 to 11,000 BC Innovative Hunter-Gatherers Early Hunter-Gatherer Peoples moving toward herding, low-level farming, fishing Highlands of Peru 10,500 to 2000 BC Southeastern U.S. 7000 to 500 BC Coastal California 7000 BC to AD 1400 Tehuacan Valley, Mexico 5000 to 1500 BC Farming Villagers Ancient Puebloans; Early Iroquois; Taino Southwestern U.S.; Northeastern North America; Puerto Rico AD 1100 to 1300 (objects range from AD 200 to 1600) A New Style of Leader Tairona, Quimbaya, and Muisca Colombia AD 500 to 1600 Hopewell Ohio River Valley AD 100-400 Mississippian Southern Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Georgia AD 1000 to 1400 Olmec Mexico (Gulf Coast) 1000 to 400 BC Norte Chico Peru (North Coast) Circa 3000 BC Rulers and Citizens Zapotec Oaxaca, Mexico AD 200 to 800 Maya Guatemala, Belize, Yucatan, and Chiapas State, Mexico AD 250 to 900 (Classic Period) City of Teotihuacan Valley of Mexico AD 100 to 650 Moche Peru (North Coast) AD 100 to 800 Wari Peru (Southern Highlands) AD 500 to 1000 Nazca Peru (Southern Coast) 200 BC to AD 600 Empire Builders Aztec Mexico AD 1350 to 1521 Inca Based in Peru but stretched from Ecuador to northern Chile along the west coast of S. America AD 1400 to 1532 <<Return to The Ancient Americas Press Kit