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Landmark Americas archaeological

Chinchorro Mummy Sites

5000 BCE – 1500 BCE · 3,500 years

Coastal sites in Chile with the world's oldest artificially mummified remains, predating Egyptian mummies by two millennia

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. No border recorded here in this snapshot (3000 BCE)
  2. Chinchorro culture (2000 BCE–500 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Manioc farmers (400 BCE–100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1 BCE–500 CE)
  5. Tiahuanaco Empire (600 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Aymara kingdoms (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Chango (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Inca Empire (1500 CE–1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Vice-Royalty of Peru (1600 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Peru (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. Chile (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Americas

Grand Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Maya chiefdoms and states

2000 BCE – 1521 CE

Landmark · Americas

Mammoth Cave

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Chorrera

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Landmark · Americas

Hawaii Volcanoes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Norte Chico

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Landmark · Americas

Carlsbad Caverns

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Arctic marine mammal hunters

Attested 2000 BCE – 1200 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 5000 BCE and 1500 BCE.

3700 BCE Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3000 BCE Caral 1700 BCE Poverty Point 5000 BCE Abydos 3800 BCE Ur

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Unification of Egypt Conflict · Middle East 3100 BCE – 2950 BCE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Plitvice Lakes Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing
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