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Polity Americas

Shellfish gatherers

Attested 1500 BCE – 800 CE

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

The atlas draws the world at 18 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Shellfish gatherers 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 18 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 800 CE
1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE500 BCE400 BCE323 BCE300 BCE200 BCE100 BCE1 BCE100 CE200 CE300 CE400 CE500 CE600 CE700 CE800 CE

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

Chichen Itza

600 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Chorrera

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Maya City-State Wars

400 BCE – 900 CE

Landmark · Americas

Tikal

600 BCE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Monte Albán

Attested 323 BCE – 700 CE

Trade route · Americas

Polynesian Eastward Voyaging

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Monte Albán Zapotec Conquest State

200 BCE – 500 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 800 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.

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great Conflict · Middle East 559 BCE – 530 BCE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing
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