1. Paleoindians 55,000 to 9500 BC
   • Pendejo cave in NM, Monte Verde in Chile 12,700 BC
   • Cactus Hill in Virginia 15,000 BC
   • Arlington Springs woman in California Channel Is. 11,000 BC
   • Kennewick Man on Columbia River 7500 BC
   • Spirit Cave in Nevada 7215 BC
2. Clovis hunters from 9500 BC
   • Folsom to 8000, Plano to 5500 BC stemmed pts
   • bison kill at Great Fall, Manitoba
3. Mound-builders until 500 AD
   • Poverty Point 2000-700 BC had 1000-mi. trade
   • Serpent Mound and Burial Mound of pre-Hopewell Adena culture 800 BC-400 AD
   • Hopewell Mound City group 200 AD in Ohio

   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
   • 10-story Monk's Mound, sacrifices, hierarchy
8. Muskogean culture 1200-1500 AD - Etowah in N. GA
   • 6-story mounds, irrigation, copper
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

Links:

• Articles:
  • Ancient Spirit Cave Mummy from Archaeology Newsbriefs, Sept. 1996.
  • California Bones of Arlington Springs Woman 13,000 years old, from AP, April 12, 1999
  • Ancient Kennewick Man may be linked to Asians, Polynesians from AP, Oct. 17, 1999
  • Anthropologist says Romans beat Columbus from Reuters, Feb. 10, 2000
  • Pre-Clovis site at Cactus Hill Virginia from Associated Press, April 6, 2000
  • A cave inn haven in New Mexico from Boston Globe, August 14, 2000
• Ancient Human Mummy from Nevada State Museum
• Kennewick Man from PaleoNet
  
• Mesa Verde National Park from NPS, including the on-line 96-page booklet The Story of Mesa Verde National Park
• Kokopelli's Cave Bed & Breakfast, Farmington, New Mexico
• Mississippian Moundbuilders and Their Artifacts
• Oldest house in North America at Santa Fe from 1610

Oldest house