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Poverty point culture

Attested 1500 BCE – 500 CE

Archaeological culture that inhabited the lower Mississippi Valley, US

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 2 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Poverty point culture appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1500 BCE 2 snapshots · 2,000 years unattested at the widest 500 CE
1500 BCE500 CE

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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400 BCE – 900 CE

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Teotihuacan

200 BCE – still standing

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Monte Albán

Attested 323 BCE – 700 CE

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200 BCE – 500 CE

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Chinchorro Mummy Sites

5000 BCE – 1500 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 500 CE.

1200 BCE Ha'amonga 'a Maui 1100 BCE Pulemelei Mound 900 BCE Chavín de Huántar 600 BCE Tikal 600 BCE San Agustín Archaeological Park 600 BCE Tierradentro

And in the rest of the world

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

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