NA Prehistory FINAL

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Adena Dates

700-200 BC

Hopewell Dates

200 BC - 400 AD

Clovis Dates

13,500 - 12,900 BP

Folsom Dates

12,900 - 12,200 BP

First Cemetery

Sloan Site (Dalton) ~10,000 BP;; not many solid dates for Dalton

Spread of Maize to Eastern North America

1000 BP

Oldest Pottery in US

5000 BP; Savannah River Valley

General Dates of Eastern Agricultural Complex

~2000 years before Maize; ~3000 BP

Watson Brake Date

3500 BC; Louisiana

Early Archaic (East)

8000 - 6000 BC

Middle Archaic (East)

6000- 4-3,000 BC

Late Archaic (East)

4-3,000-1000 BC

Woodland (East)

1000 BC - Contact

Age of Most Cliff Dwellings

1200-1300 AD

Cactus Hill Site

Possible pre-clovis site in VA; artifacts in a layer beneath a clovis layer resembling Meadowcroft

Shawnee-Minisink

PA; first paleoindian site with plant remains and non-megafaunal remains; deeply burned, deep stratification, two excavations

Hell Gap Site

Wyoming provided near complete projectile point sequence

Koster site

Illinois River Valley; repeated occupations from 9,500 - 700 BP; some of earliest permanent houses in North America; dog burial

Ozette

“New World Pompeii”; whaling village completely covered by landslide; organic materials preserved in place; 1560 date

Pueblo Bonito

Largest Pueblo in Chaco’s Canyon; 800-1130 AD

Casas Grandas (Paquime)

Northern Mexico; 1300-1400 AD; largest pueblo; ballcourts, ritual architecture, ceramics, turquoise, macaw feathers, shells

St. Albans

W. VA; over 30 occupational zones; Middle Archaic diagnostic; Established Early and Middle Archaic Date for the region

Dust Cave

Paleoindian cave site in Alabama; helped establish eastern point sequence

Hardaway

NC; deeply stratified; established Eastern Point Sequence; Hardaway points interpreted as Dalton Variant

Paleo Crossing

Medina, OH; nearly entire tool assemblage is chert from southern Indiana;

Items covered under NAGPRA

Human remains, associated funerary objects, sacred objects, objects of cultural patrimony, only for federally recognized tribes, and groups/research that receive federal funding/is on federal land