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
   • 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
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. Miss. 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

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