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North American Culture History and Archaeology

Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of the continent of North America.

Chacuey, Dominican Republic
The Taino village of Chacuey in the Dominican Republic is characterized by petroglyphs and water pools

Caribbean Archaeology
About.com's guide to the prehistory and archaeology of the Caribbean Islands.

Guide to Pre-Columbian Cuba
A detailed guide to the archaeology and prehistory of Cuba

Pre-Columbian Caribbean Chronology
This timeline describes thee archaeology of ancient Caribbean islands and their prehistory.

Ozette, Olympic Peninsula, Washington
The Ozette site is a Native American First Peoples village, buried and preserved beneath a mudslide

Guide to the Archaeology of the Northwest Coast
About.com's Guide to the Archaeology of the Northwest Coast provides an introduction to the ancient people and history of the American Northwest Coast.

Denali Complex
The Denali Complex is a name archaeologists have given to early inhabitants of the arctic parts of North America.

Northwest Coast Timeline
A detailed timeline of the Native American history of the American Northwest Coast.

Salt in Ancient Mesoamerica
Salt was an important was condiment, food preservative and dye mordant in Pre-Columbian America.

The Jewish Community of Nevis Archaeology Project
An archaeological and documentary project to record the history of the seventeenth and eighteenth century Jewish community on Nevis, from Michelle Terrell.

Ancient Americas
Ancient Americas - American Archaeology at the Field Museum

Athabaskan
The Athabaskans were late prehistoric and historic period peoples of the American southwest, considered ancestral to the Navajo and Apache and other modern groups.

The Soul of Archaeology
Bringing together images and cosmology from cultures as seemingly unbridgeable as the Aztec of Mexico and the Pawnee of the Great Plains, Robert Hall opens the reader’s mind to an infinity of hitherto unconsidered connections.

Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America
Susan Toby Evans and David L. Webster. 2000. Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing, New York.

Algonquin Culture
The Algonquin was a proto-historic and historic cultural group of the eastern North American continent at the time of the first European settlement.

Anasazi Culture
The Anasazi is the name given to the prehistoric agricultural group who occupied the Colorado Plateau in the American southwest

Besant-Sonota Complex
The Besant-Sonota Complex is the name archaeologists have given to Woodland bison hunters in the American Great Plains in Canada and the United States

Basketmaker Culture
The Basketmaker culture is the name archaeologists have given to a southwestern United States cultural group, ancestral to the Anasazi.

Caddoan Culture
Caddoan culture is the name given to farmers in the Arkansas River Valley of the central southern United States and southwestward between about 1100-400 BP (years before the present).

Chaco Culture
Chaco culture was one of three three great ancestral pueblo cultures and regional powers of the American southwest in the late prehistoric times

Chantuto Phase
The Chantuto phase is the name given to Archaic period occupation of the coastal tidewaters along the southwest Mexico, dated roughly between 4000-1500 BC.

Carib Indians
Native American group who had the unfortunate honor of being the first to meet Columbus in the New World in 1492. Within a decade, they were reported to have been destroyed by diseases brought by the Spanish explorers; but their ancestors continue to populate the Caribbean Islands.

Casimiroid Culture
The Casimiroid culture is an Archaic period culture of the Caribbean Sea in Central America, with the type site found on the island of Casimira in the Dominican Republic.

Guanacaste (Nicoya Polychrome)
Guanacaste or Nicoya Polychrome is the name given to the Early Post Classic period in Costa Rica and Guatemala.

Nicoya Polychrome
Nicoya Polychrome or Guanacaste is the name given to the Early Post Classic period in Costa Rica and Guatemala.

Hohokam culture
The Hohokam culture is the name given to farming people of the American southwest between AD 200 and 1450.

Mount Albion Complex
The Mount Albion Complex is a form of Archaic lifestyle (hunting and gathering) that took place in high altitudes of the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin of North America.

Olmec Civilization
The Olmec civilization is the name given to a sophisticated central American culture between 1200 and 400 BC.

Numic Speakers
Numic speakers are ancestral Ute, Paiute and Shoshone, thought to have moved into the Great Basin of the United States from California about AD 1000.

PreClovis Culture
PreClovis culture is the term used by archaeologists to refer to the admittedly controversial evidence for human occupations in the Americas before 11,200 years before the present.

Orange Culture
The Orange culture is a term for the Late Archaic period in Florida (and no, I'm not making this up).

Ortoiroid Culture
The Ortoiroid culture is a preceramic culture of the Caribbean Sea, generally dated concurrent to and after the Casimiroid culture, and thought to have resulted from people migrating north from South America.

Oshara Tradition
The Oshara tradition is the name given to an Archaic culture of the American southwest, about 6000 BC.

Pueblo Culture
The Pueblo culture is the name archaeologists have given to the people of the American southwest who built stone and adobe houses between about 1300 and 1600 AD.

Piedmont Tradition
The Piedmont Tradition is the name given to artifacts recovered from specific Late Archaic sites in the Piedmont Mountains of the eastern United States.

Paleoindian
The term paleoindian generally refers to the first inhabitants of the America continents--maybe.

Pinto Culture
The Pinto culture is the name archaeologists have given to the people who were living along the Colorado River during the Archaic period.

Plains Archaic
The Plains Archaic is the name archaeologists have given to the hunter-gatherers who lived in the American plains between about 6000 BC and AD 500.

Plano Culture
The Plano culture is the name given to Late Paleoindian people living in the North American continent between 10000-8000 years ago.

Plimouth Plantation (USA)
The Plimouth Plantation is the name given to the living history farm in the location of the archaeological site, remnants of a 17th century English colony.

Susquehanna Tradition
The Susquehanna Tradition is a Late Archaic period (ca. 5,900 to 3,200 years ago) cultural group of the northeastern United States and including Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Taino Culture
The Taino people were one of the cultures in the Caribbean that had the misfortune to meet Christopher Columbus

Saladoid Culture
The Saladoid culture is the name given to immigrants from South American who moved into the Caribbean region about the 4th century BC.

San Dieguito-Pinto Culture
The San Dieguito-Pinto Culture is the name given to a collection of early Archaic occupation sites located in the American Southwest and southern California.

Sonoran Agricultural Complex
The Sonoran Agricultural Complex is the general name given to the suite of crops grown in the American southwest and documented in sites such as Bat Cave beginning about 4,000-3,500 BP.

Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (also known as the Southern Cult) is the name given to a broad, regional similarity of artifacts, iconography, ceremonies and mythology of the Mississippian period between about AD 1000 and 1600.

Tarascan Culture
The Tarascan culture or empire is the name given by the Spaniards to the Phurhépecha state of central America, dated to the Late Post Classic, between 1100 and 1530 AD.

Clovis Culture
The Clovis culture is the earliest well-established human culture in the North American continent

Toltec Civilization
The Toltec Civilization was one of three great empires of the Basin of Mexico, after the fall of Teotihuacan and before the rise of the Aztecs.

Dalton Culture
The Dalton culture is the name given to one of the cultures dated to the Late Paleoindian, early Archaic (10,500-10,000 years BP) period in the North American continent

Denbigh Flint Culture
The Denbigh Flint Culture is the name given to one of two patterned stone tool complexes of the arctic region around 2500 BC to 800 BC (the other is Pre-Dorset).

Banwari Trace Site, Trinidad, Caribbean
Banwari Trace on Trinidad is the site where the oldest human burial so far discovered in the Caribbean was found

Guide to North American Archaeology
Introduction to North America Prehistory, Places and Cultures of North America Prehistory

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