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- 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
- Clovis hunters from 9500 BC
- Folsom to 8000, Plano to 5500 BC, stemmed pts
- bison kill at Great Fall, Manitoba
- Mound-builders until 500 AD
- Poverty Pt. 2000-700 BC had 1000-mi. trade
- Hopewell Ohio serpent mound of Adena culture
- Chumash in California by 600 BC - Ishi found in 1911
- Anasazi until 750 AD - Mesa Verde, grow maize
- Pueblo culture 950-1200 AD - Chaco Canyon
- Miss. culture 600-1200 AD - Cahokia, Nursing Mother
- 10-story Monk's Mound, sacrifices, hierarchy
- Muskogean culture 1200-1500 AD - Etowah in N. GA
- 6-story mounds, irrigation, copper
- Algonquin culture 1200-1500 AD - Iroquois in N.Y.
- Maya, Aztec, Inca from 300 AD - possible Hu-Shen
- Irish monks by 600 - Saint Brendan's voyage
- Leif Ericson to Vinland by 1000 - L'Anse aux Meadows
- Genoese by 1291 - Vivaldi brothers
- Portuguese navigators by 1415 - conquer Ceuta, Azores
- Bristol fishermen by 1480 - to Brasil
- Columbus 1492
