Native American Culture Timeline

Baskets
Seeds
Fruit
Nuts

Copper mining culture in Great Lakes area (hammering copper)
Permanent villages in California
Abundant supply of fish and and acorns

Domesticated crops (corn) from Mexico in SW United States
(by 2500 BC - domesticated chile peppers, pumpkins, squash)

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Cooking vessels made of steatite (soapstone)
Tabacco was smoked out of stone pipes

http://www.hal.state.mi.us/mhc/michrelics/images/pipe1.jpg

Poverty Point (considered the first American city)
Bird Effigy

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Woodlands Period Begins
Domesticated beans (from Mexico)
Complete Three Sisters

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Five tribes settle in NY

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Domesticated dogs

Bow and arrow (archery) developed

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Cahokia Settlement (built)