List of Ancient Americans

Northern America
Main article: List of archaeological periods (North America)
Paleo-Indians, c. 18,000–8000 BC
Clovis
Folsom tradition
Plano cultures
Cody complex
Archaic Period, 8000–1000 BC
Paleo-Arctic Tradition, 8000–5000 BC, Alaska and Yukon
Watson Brake and Lower Mississippi Valley mounds sites, 3500 BC–2800 BC,
Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida
Poverty Point culture, 2200 BC–700 BC, Lower Mississippi Valley and
surrounding Gulf coast
Post-archaic period, 1000 BC–onward
Southwest:
Ancestral Pueblo culture, 1200 BC–1300 AD, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New
Mexico—one of these cultural groups referred to as Anasazi
Fremont culture, 1 AD–1300 AD, Utah and parts of Nevada, Idaho and
Colorado
Hohokam, 1 AD–1450 AD, Arizona
Eastern Woodlands
Woodland period, 1000 BC–1000 AD
Adena, 1000–200 BC, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of
Pennsylvania and New York.
Hopewell culture, 200 BC–500 AD, Southeastern Canada and eastern United
States
Troyville culture, 400–700 AD, Louisiana and Mississippi
Coles Creek culture, 700–1200 AD, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi
Plum Bayou culture, 700–1200 AD, Arkansas
Mississippian culture, 800 AD–1730 AD, Midwestern, Eastern, and
Southeastern United States
Caborn-Welborn culture, 1400–1700 AD, Indiana and Kentucky.
Caddoan Mississippian culture, 1000 AD–1650 AD, Eastern Oklahoma,
Western Arkansas, Northeast Texas, and Northwest Louisiana.
Fort Walton Culture, 1100–1550 AD, Florida.
Leon-Jefferson Culture, 1100–1550 AD, Florida.
Plaquemine culture, 1200–1730 AD, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Upper Mississippian culture,
Fort Ancient, 1000 AD–1650 AD, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia
Oneota, 900–1650 AD, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Missouri.

Mesoamerica
Main article: Mesoamerican chronology
In alphabetical order:

Aztec, 1325–1521 AD, central Mexico

Formative Period, 2500 BC–200 AD, La Blanca, Ujuxte, Monte Alto Culture,
Mokaya Culture
Huastec, 1000 BC–1500 AD, Hidalgo, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí and
Tamaulipas
Maya, 2600 BC–1697 AD, Mexican Southern states: Chiapas, Tabasco,
Campeche and Yucatán Peninsula; Central America: Belize; Guatemala; El
Salvador; Honduras
Mixe, 400–present
Mixtec, unknown–1600 AD, western Oaxaca
Olmec, 1500–400 BC, Veracruz and Tabasco
Purépecha Empire or Tarascan state, 1300–1530 AD, Michoacán
Teotihuacán, 200 BC–800 AD, near Mexico City
Teuchitlan tradition, 300 BC – 500 AD, north-central Jalisco
Toltec, 900–1100 AD – may be mythical
Totonac, unknown–1500 AD, eastern Mexico
Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition, 1500–300 BC, Michoacan, Colima,
Jalisco, Nayarit
Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition, 300 BC–400 AD, Jalisco, Nayarit, and, to
a lesser extent, Colima
Zapotec, 500 BC–1500 AD, Oaxaca

Caribbean

Early South American cultures

Ortoiroid people, c. 5500—200 BC
Krum Bay culture, Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, 1500—200 BC
Coroso culture, Puerto Rico, 1000 BC–200 AD
Ciboney people, Greater Antilles, c. 1000—301 BC
Guanahatabey, Cuba, 1000 BC
Saladoid culture, 500 BC—545 AD
Ostionoid culture, 600—1500 AD
Arawak people, c. 500–1500 AD
Taíno, Lesser Antilles and Guadeloupe
Lucayans, Greater Antilles and Bahamas 700 AD–1500 AD – group
encountered by Columbus
Nepoya and Suppoya, Trinidad
Igneri, Dominica 500 AD, St. Croix 650 AD, Puerto Rico 1000 AD