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For Immediate Release
Contact: Pat Kremer
(312) 665-7100 (For Media Use Only)
Societies and Peoples Featured in The Ancient Americas
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Peoples and Societies
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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 |
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