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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 End of last glacial period of Pleistocene/ beginning of Holocene warm period | 11,000 years ago |
| Sea levels stabilize following the melting of glaciers | ~5,00 years ago |
| First permanent villages appear in Southwest Asia | 11,000 BC |
| First cultivated plants (domesticates) appear in Southwest Asia | 9,000 BC |
| First domesticated herd animals appear in Southwest Asia | 8,500 BC |
| Pottery is first made in Southwest Asia | 7,500 BC |
| Natufian Period | 11,000-9,000 BC |
| Early (pre-pottery) Neolithic period | 9,000-7,500 BC |
| Late (pottery) Neolithic period | after 7,500 BC |
| Younger Dryas | 10,800-9,500 BC |
| Catalhoyuk occupied | 6,000 BC |
| Earliest domesticated squash in mesoamerica | 8,500 BC |
| Earliest domesticated maize in mesoamerica | 4,250 BC |
| Earliest domesticated beans in mesoamerica | 500-300 BC |
| Earliest pottery and farming villages in mesoamerica | 3,000 BC |
| Maize spreads from mesoamerica to the american southwest | 2,100 BC |
| Maize spreads from the southwest to the Great Plains and Eastern Woodlants | 200 BC and 200 AD |
| Early farming villages appear in the Southern Southwest | 1,500 BC and AD 200 |
| Local domesticates of squash in the Eastern Woodlands | 2,500 BC |
| Local domestication of goosefoot, marsh elder, sunflower in the Eastern Woodlands | 2,500-1,500 BC |
| Archaic Period | 8,000- 1,000 BC |
| Woodland Period | 1,000 BC- AD 1,000 |
| Mississippian Period | AD 1,000- 1,539+ |
| Poverty Point | 1,500-700 BC |
| Hopewell Interaction Sphere | 100 BC- AD 400 |
| Maize becomes a major crop in the Mississippi River Valley | AD 1,000 |
| Cahokia | AD 1,050-1,250 |
| Southern Cult (Southeastern ceremonial complex) | AD 1,200 |
| Moundville | AD 200 |
| Archaic hunter-gatherers and early village farms | 7000 BC- AD 500 |
| Regional farming traditions: Anasazi, Mogollon, Hohokam | AD 50 |
| Snaketown | AD 200-1150 |
| Hohokam villages abandoned, people resettle on Salt River | AD 1150 |
| Hohokam culture collapses | AD 1400-1450 |
| Construction of Pueblo Bonito | Ad 861- 1115 |
| Peak of Chacoan culture | AD 1020-1100 |
| Decline of Chacoan culture | AD 1100 |
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