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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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Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Landmark · Americas

Chinchorro Mummy Sites

5000 BCE – 1500 BCE

Polity · Americas

Chorrera

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Landmark · Americas

Ha'amonga 'a Maui

1200 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers

Attested 1500 BCE – 1715 CE

Landmark · Americas

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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