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Landmark Americas archaeological World Heritage

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

3700 BCE – 1850 CE · 5,550 years

Cliff site in Alberta, Canada used by Plains peoples for nearly 6,000 years to drive bison herds off a precipice

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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump on Wikipedia.

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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. Archaic Amerindian hunter-gatherers (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Plains bison hunters (1500 BCE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Niitsítpiis-stahkoii ᖹᐟᒧᐧᐨᑯᐧ ᓴᐦᖾᐟ (Blackfoot / Niitsítapi ᖹᐟᒧᐧᒣᑯ) (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Plains bison hunters (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Blackfoot (1530 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Rupert's Land (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. British North America (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Canada (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Landmark · Americas

Grand Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Canada

Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Hawaiian Unification Wars

1782 CE – 1810 CE

Landmark · Americas

Mammoth Cave

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Mexico

Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Americas

Polynesian Eastward Voyaging

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Argentine War of Independence

1810 CE – 1818 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3700 BCE and 1850 CE.

3000 BCE Caral 1700 BCE Poverty Point 1200 BCE Ha'amonga 'a Maui 1100 BCE Pulemelei Mound 900 BCE Chavín de Huántar

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 Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE 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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