Pre-Columbian North America

E892835

cultural region historical period

Pre-Columbian North America refers to the diverse societies, cultures, and civilizations that existed across the North American continent before the arrival of Europeans.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Eastern North American Archaic and Woodland cultural traditions	1
Pre-Columbian North America canonical	1

Statements (81)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural region ⓘ historical period ⓘ
affectedBy	climatic changes such as the Medieval Warm Period ⓘ environmental diversity across the continent ⓘ
followedBy	Colonial North America NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasArchaeologicalEvidence	Mesoamerican pyramids NERFINISHED ⓘ cliff dwellings such as Mesa Verde ⓘ mound sites such as Cahokia ⓘ pueblos such as Chaco Canyon ⓘ rock art sites ⓘ
hasDemography	millions of inhabitants ⓘ
hasEconomicActivity	craft production ⓘ fishing ⓘ horticulture ⓘ hunting and gathering ⓘ interregional trade ⓘ maize agriculture ⓘ
hasLanguageFamily	Algic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Athabaskan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Iroquoian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Mayan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Oto-Manguean languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Siouan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Uto-Aztecan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPart	Arctic NERFINISHED ⓘ California cultural area NERFINISHED ⓘ Eastern Woodlands NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ Mesoamerica NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Northwest Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ Southwest ⓘ Subarctic ⓘ
hasPoliticalOrganization	chiefdoms ⓘ city-states ⓘ empires ⓘ tribal societies ⓘ
hasReligion	animistic traditions ⓘ polytheistic belief systems ⓘ shamanism ⓘ
hasTechnology	irrigation systems ⓘ mound construction ⓘ pottery ⓘ road systems ⓘ stone tools ⓘ textile production ⓘ
includesCulture	Adena culture NERFINISHED ⓘ Algonquian peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Ancestral Puebloans NERFINISHED ⓘ Aztec civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ California Indigenous peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Hohokam culture NERFINISHED ⓘ Hopewell tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ Inuit NERFINISHED ⓘ Iroquoian peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Maya civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ Mississippian culture NERFINISHED ⓘ Mixtec civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ Mogollon culture NERFINISHED ⓘ Northwest Coast cultures NERFINISHED ⓘ Olmec civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ Plains cultures NERFINISHED ⓘ Pueblo peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Teotihuacan civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ Thule culture NERFINISHED ⓘ Toltec civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ Zapotec civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	agricultural development ⓘ complex societies ⓘ diverse Indigenous cultures ⓘ diverse languages ⓘ long-distance trade networks ⓘ monumental architecture ⓘ sophisticated art traditions ⓘ
locatedIn	North America ⓘ
precededBy	Paleoindian period in North America ⓘ
studiedBy	anthropology ⓘ archaeology ⓘ ethnohistory ⓘ
timePeriod	before 1492 ⓘ before European contact ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kizh → historicalPeriod → Pre-Columbian North America ⓘ

East Florida coastal shell midden tradition → partOf → Pre-Columbian North America ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern North American Archaic and Woodland cultural traditions