Pre-Columbian North America. Ancient America Kennewick Man found in 1996 40 years old, 5’9” tall, dead for 9,400 years.

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Pre-Columbian North America

Ancient America Kennewick Man found in years old, 5’9” tall, dead for 9,400 years

Historical Sources for Ancient America Petroglyphs = paintings on rocks Pictographs = drawings on rocks Clovis Points Pictograph

Pangea Split into 7 continents nearly 240 million years ago

Homo erectus Homo sapiens

Bering Strait 13,000 BCE = Paleo-Indians crossed Bering Strait from Siberia into North America

A Turning Point 11,000 BCE = Paleo-Indian Hunters become Archaic-Indian Hunter-Gatherers

Agriculture in Mesoamerica 5,000 BCE = farming developed in Mesoamerica

The Anasazi Built “pueblo” apartments in the Southwest Existed during the 1 st century CE

Mississippian Mound Builders 800 – 1500 CE Cahokia is near St. Louis, MO

Iroquois Confederacy/5 Nations Confederacy Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca Lived in Longhouses Matrilineal

Demographics At 1492 = 50 million people in North America, Mesoamerica, & South America Estimates vary = 1/5 along Pacific Coast, ¼ in Southwest, 1/3 East of Mississippi River, ¼ in Great Plains, Great Basin & Arctic