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Maximilian Dörrbecker ( Chumwa ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Landmark Americas archaeological

Poverty Point

1700 BCE – 1100 BCE · 600 years

Monumental earthwork complex in Louisiana with concentric ridges and a 72-foot mound, built by hunter-gatherers 3,500 years ago

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Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–2000 BCE)
  2. Eastern North American hunter-gatherers (1500 BCE–200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Marksville Culture (100 BCE–500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Eastern North American hunter-gatherers (600 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Tunica (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Natchez (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Tunica (1530 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Luisiana (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. United States (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. United States of America (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. United States (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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  • Approximate

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Chinchorro Mummy Sites

5000 BCE – 1500 BCE

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Chorrera

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

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Ha'amonga 'a Maui

1200 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers

Attested 1500 BCE – 1715 CE

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Pulemelei Mound

1100 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Andean hunter-gatherers

Attested 1500 BCE – 1783 CE

Landmark · Americas

Grand Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1700 BCE and 1100 BCE.

1200 BCE Ha'amonga 'a Maui 1100 BCE Pulemelei Mound 1600 BCE Mycenae 1600 BCE Hattusa 1595 BCE Kassite Conquest of Babylon

And in the rest of the world

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

Mycenae Landmark · Europe 1600 BCE – still standing Khoiasan Polity · Africa 1500 BCE – 1500 CE Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia) Trade route · Oceania 1500 BCE – 500 BCE Campaigns of Thutmose III Conflict · Middle East 1457 BCE – 1425 BCE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Abu Simbel Landmark · Middle East 1264 BCE – still standing
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