Pre-Columbian North America

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Pre-Columbian North America refers to the diverse societies, cultures, and civilizations that existed across the North American continent before the arrival of Europeans.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural region
historical period
affectedBy climatic changes such as the Medieval Warm Period
environmental diversity across the continent
followedBy Colonial North America
linked to: Colonial America
hasArchaeologicalEvidence Mesoamerican pyramids
linked to: Mayan pyramid

cliff dwellings such as Mesa Verde
mound sites such as Cahokia
pueblos such as Chaco Canyon
rock art sites
hasDemography millions of inhabitants
hasEconomicActivity craft production
fishing
horticulture
hunting and gathering
interregional trade
maize agriculture
hasLanguageFamily Algic languages
Athabaskan languages
Iroquoian languages
Mayan languages
Oto-Manguean languages
Siouan languages
Uto-Aztecan languages
linked to: Uto-Aztecan
hasPart Arctic
linked to: Arctic region

California cultural area
Eastern Woodlands
Great Basin
Great Plains
Mesoamerica
Pacific Northwest Coast
linked to: Pacific Northwest

Southwest
Subarctic
hasPoliticalOrganization chiefdoms
city-states
empires
tribal societies
hasReligion animistic traditions
polytheistic belief systems
shamanism
hasTechnology irrigation systems
mound construction
pottery
road systems
stone tools
textile production
includesCulture Adena culture
Algonquian peoples
Ancestral Puebloans
Aztec civilization
linked to: Aztec culture

California Indigenous peoples
Hohokam culture
Hopewell tradition
Inuit
Iroquoian peoples
Maya civilization
Mississippian culture
Mixtec civilization
Mogollon culture
Northwest Coast cultures
Olmec civilization
Plains cultures
linked to: Plains culture area

Pueblo peoples
Teotihuacan civilization
Thule culture
Toltec civilization
Zapotec civilization
knownFor agricultural development
complex societies
diverse Indigenous cultures
diverse languages
long-distance trade networks
monumental architecture
sophisticated art traditions
locatedIn North America
precededBy Paleoindian period in North America
studiedBy anthropology
archaeology
ethnohistory
timePeriod before 1492
before European contact

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Kizh historicalPeriod Pre-Columbian North America
East Florida coastal shell midden tradition partOf Eastern North American Archaic and Woodland cultural traditions
linked to: Pre-Columbian North America
Rappahannock (Native American) historicalEra Pre-Columbian North America
Kanza historicalEra pre-Columbian North America
linked to: Pre-Columbian North America
Mississippian period partOf pre-Columbian North America
linked to: Pre-Columbian North America
Hopi Pueblos historicalEra Pre-Columbian North America