Before Columbus

map from Scientific American Sept. 2000
  1. Paleoindians 55,000 to 9500 BC
  2. Clovis hunters from 9500 BC
  3. Mound-builders until 500 AD
    Old West ca. 1890
  4. Chumash in California by 600 BC - Ishi found in 1911
  5. Anasazi until 750 AD - Mesa Verde, grow maize
  6. Pueblo culture 950-1200 AD - Chaco Canyon
  7. Mississippian culture 600-1200 AD - Cahokia, Nursing Mother
  8. Muskogean culture 1200-1500 AD - Etowah in N. GA
  9. Algonquin culture 1200-1500 AD - Iroquois in N.Y.
  10. Maya, Aztec, Inca from 300 AD - possible Hu-Shen
  11. Irish monks by 600 - Saint Brendan's voyage
  12. Leif Ericson to Vinland by 1000 - L'Anse aux Meadows
  13. Genoese by 1291 - Vivaldi brothers
  14. Portuguese navigators by 1415 - conquer Ceuta, Azores
  15. Bristol fishermen by 1480 - to Brasil
  16. Many First Americans

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