List of archaeological periods (North America)

North American archaeological periods divides the history of pre-Columbian

Pre-Columbian

The pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during...

North America into a number of named successive eras or periods, from the earliest evidence of human habitation through to the early Colonial period which followed the European colonization of the Americas

European colonization of the Americas

The start of the European colonization of the Americas is typically dated to 1492. The first Europeans to reach the Americas were the Vikings during the 11th century, who established several colonies in Greenland and one short-lived settlement in present day Newfoundland...

Stage classification

One of the most enduring classifications of archaeological periods & cultures was established in Gordon Willey

Gordon Willey

Gordon Randolph Willey was an American archaeologist famous for his fieldwork in South and Central America as well as the southeastern United States...

and Philip Phillips

Philip Phillips (archaeologist)

Philip Phillips was an influential archaeologist in the United States during the 20th century. Although his first graduate work was in architecture, he later received a doctorate from Harvard University under advisor Alfred Marston Tozzer...

' 1958 book Method and Theory in American Archaeology. They divided the archaeological record in the Americas into 5 phases. These divisions have been replaced in most of North America by more local classifications with a more elaborate time breakdown.

1. The Paleo-Indians stage and/or Lithic stage

Lithic stage

In the sequence of North American prehistoric cultural stages first proposed by Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips in 1958, the Lithic stage was the earliest period of human occupation in the Americas, accruing during the Late Pleistocene period, to time before 8,000 B.C....

2. The Archaic stage

3. Post-archaic stage - At this point the North America classifications system differs from the rest of the Americas.

For more detail on the five major stages, which are still in use in Mesoamerican archaeology, see Mesoamerican chronology

Mesoamerican chronology

Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian , the Archaic , the Preclassic , the Classic , and the Postclassic...

and Archaeology of the Americas

Archaeology of the Americas

The archaeology of the Americas is the study of the archaeology of North America , Central America, South America and the Caribbean...

Table of archaeological periods North America

Paleo Indians Paleo Indians Paleo-Indians or Paleoamericans is a classification term given to the first peoples who entered, and subsequently inhabited, the American continent during the final glacial episodes of the late Pleistocene period... (Lithic stage Lithic stage In the sequence of North American prehistoric cultural stages first proposed by Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips in 1958, the Lithic stage was the earliest period of human occupation in the Americas, accruing during the Late Pleistocene period, to time before 8,000 B.C.... ) (18000 BCE - 8000 BCE)		Clovis culture Clovis culture The Clovis culture is a prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture that first appears 11,500 RCYBP , at the end of the last glacial period, characterized by the manufacture of "Clovis points" and distinctive bone and ivory tools...		c. 13,500 BCE - 11,000 BCE
		Western Fluted Point Tradition		c. 11200 BCE - 9000 BCE, California
		Post Pattern Post Pattern The Post Pattern refers to a Paleo-Indian archaeological culture of artifacts found in northwest California dating between 9,000-13,000 years ago. Excavation sites are around Clear Lake and Borax Lake. The Post Pattern is a local manifestation of the Western Pluvial Lakes Tradition.It is believed...		c. 11000 BCE - 7000 BCE, NW California
		Folsom tradition Folsom tradition The Folsom Complex is a name given by archaeologists to a specific Paleo-Indian archaeological culture that occupied much of central North America...		c. 9000 BCE - 8000 BCE
		Dalton Tradition Dalton Tradition The Dalton Tradition is a Late Paleo-Indian and Early Archaic projectile point tradition. These points appeared in most of Southeast North America around 8500-7900 BC.-References:*Fagan, Brian. Ancient North America. Thames & Hudson Ltd: London. 2005...		c. 8500 BCE - 7900 BCE
Archaic period, (Archaic stage) (8000 BCE - 1000 BCE)	by Time Period	Early Archaic 8000 BCE - 6000 BCE	Plano cultures Plano cultures The Plano cultures is a name given by archaeologists to a group of disparate hunter-gatherer communities that occupied the Great Plains area of North America during the Paleo-Indian period in the United States and the Paleo-Indian or Archaic period in Canada....
			Paleo-Arctic Tradition Paleo-Arctic Tradition The Paleo-Arctic Tradition is the name given by archaeologists to the cultural tradition of the earliest well-documented human occupants of the North American Arctic, which date from the period 8000–5000 BC...	8000 BCE - 5000 BCE
			Maritime Archaic Maritime Archaic The Maritime Archaic is a North American cultural complex of the Late Archaic along the coast of Newfoundland, the Canadian Martimes and northern New England. The Maritime Archaic began in approximately 7000 BC and lasted into the 18th century. The culture consisted of sea-mammal hunters in the...
			Red Paint People Red Paint People The Red Paint People are a pre-Columbian culture indigenous to the New England and Atlantic Canada regions of North America. They were named after their burials, which used large quantities of ochre, normally red, to cover both bodies and grave goods...
		Middle Archaic 6000 BCE - 3000 BCE	Chihuahua tradition Chihuahua tradition The Chihuahua tradition as a culture of south-central New Mexico and Chihuahua is still poorly defined. It probably includes several local adaptations that evolved over long periods of time...	c. 6000 BCE - c. 250 CE
			Watson Brake Watson Brake Watson Brake is an archaeological site in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana from the Archaic period. Dated to about 5400 years ago , Watson Brake is considered the earliest mound complex in North America. It is the earliest dated, complex construction in the Americas... and Lower Mississippi Valley sites	c. 3500 BCE - 2800 BCE
		Late Archaic 3000 BCE - 1000 BCE	Arctic Small Tool tradition Arctic small tool tradition The Arctic Small Tool tradition is a broad cultural entity that developed along the Alaska Peninsula, round Bristol Bay, and on the eastern shores of the Bering Strait around 2500 BC...	2500 BCE - 800 BCE
			Aleutian tradition Aleutian tradition The Aleutian Tradition began around 2500 BC and ended in AD 1800. Aleutian artifacts are made out of chopped stone, unlike the more common slate tools. The tradition is core and flake tradition using bifacially carved projectile points. The Aleutian people lived in semi-subterranean winter...	2500 BCE - 1800 BCE
			Poverty Point culture Poverty Point culture Poverty Point culture is an archaeological culture that corresponds to an ancient group of Indigenous peoples who inhabited the area of the lower Mississippi Valley and surrounding Gulf coast from about 2200 BCE - 700 BCE...	2200 BCE - 700 BCE
	by Location	Great Basin Great Basin The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America and is noted for its arid conditions and Basin and Range topography that varies from the North American low point at Badwater Basin to the highest point of the contiguous United States, less than away at the...	Desert Archaic
			Middle Archaic
			Late Archaic
		Great Lakes Great Lakes The Great Lakes are a collection of freshwater lakes located in northeastern North America, on the Canada – United States border. Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total surface, coming in second by volume...	Old Copper Complex Old Copper Complex Old Copper Complex is a term used for ancient Native North American societies known to have been heavily involved in the utilization of copper for weaponry and tools. It is to be distinguished from the Copper Age , when copper use becomes systematic.The Old Copper Complex of the Western Great Lakes...	c. 4000 BCE - c. 1000 BCE
		Mesoamerica Mesoamerica Mesoamerica is a region and culture area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, within which a number of pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and...	Mexican Archaic
		Southwest: Southwestern Archaic Traditions	Archaic–Early Basketmaker Era Archaic–Early Basketmaker Era The Archaic–Early Basketmaker Era, 7000 - 1500 BC was an Archaic cultural period of ancestors to the Ancient Pueblo People. They were distinguished from other Archaic people of the Southwest by their basketry which was used to gather and store food...	c. 7000 BCE - c. 1500 BCE
			San Dieguito-Pinto tradition San Dieguito-Pinto tradition The San Dieguito Complex is an archaeological pattern left by early Holocene inhabitants of southern California and surrounding portions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Radiocarbon dating places a 10,200 BP date consideration.-Archaeology:The complex was first...	c. 6500 BCE - c. 200 CE
			Chihuahua (Southeastern) Tradition Chihuahua tradition The Chihuahua tradition as a culture of south-central New Mexico and Chihuahua is still poorly defined. It probably includes several local adaptations that evolved over long periods of time...	c. 6000 BCE - c. 250 CE
			Oshara (Northern) Tradition Oshara Tradition Oshara Tradition was a Southwestern Archaic Tradition centered in north-central New Mexico, the San Juan Basin, the Rio Grande Valley, southern Colorado, and southeastern Utah....	c. 5500 BCE - c. 600 CE
			Cochise Tradition Cochise Tradition The Cochise Tradition refers to the southern archeological tradition of the four Southwestern Archaic Traditions, in the present day Southwestern United States....	5000 BCE - 200 BCE
		California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...	Millingstone Horizon Millingstone Horizon Millingstone Horizon is an archaeological period of Native American dominance denoting a period in California, USA involving extensive use of manos and other grinding technology. The interval is a subset of the Archaic Period; specifically Millingstone is usually applied to the period 6500 to... (or Encinitas Tradition)	c. 5500 BCE - 1500 BCE
			Intermediate Horizon (or Campbell Tradition)	c. 1500 BCE - 1000 CE
Post-archaic period, (Post-archaic stage) (1000 BCE - present)	in North	Norton tradition Norton tradition The Norton tradition is an archaeological culture that developed in the Western Arctic along the Alaskan shore of the Bering Strait around 1000 BCE and lasted through about 800 CE...	Choris Stage	c. 1000 BCE - 500 BCE
			Norton Norton -England:Norton, County DurhamNorton, HertfordshireNorton, KentNorton, NorthamptonshireNorton, NottinghamshireNorton, Runcorn, CheshireNorton, SuffolkNorton, Dudley, West MidlandsNorton, Worcester, WorcestershireNorton, Doncaster, South Yorkshire...	500 BCE - 800 CE
			Ipiutak Stage	1 CE - 800 CE
		Dorset culture Dorset culture The Dorset culture was a Paleo-Eskimo culture that preceded the Inuit culture in Arctic North America. It has been defined as having four phases, with distinct technology related to the people's hunting and tool making...		500 BCE - 1500 CE
		Thule people Thule people The Thule or proto-Inuit were the ancestors of all modern Inuit. They developed in coastal Alaska by AD 1000 and expanded eastwards across Canada, reaching Greenland by the 13th century. In the process, they replaced people of the earlier Dorset culture that had previously inhabited the region...		1000 CE - 1600 CE
	in Southwest and by Pecos Classification Pecos Classification The Pecos Classification is a division of all known Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture into chronological phases, based on changes in architecture, art, pottery, and cultural remains. The original classification dates back to consensus reached at a 1927 archæological conference held in Pecos, New...	Early Basketmaker II Era Early Basketmaker II Era The Early Basketmaker II Era, 1500 BC - AD 50 was the first Post-Archaic cultural period of Ancient Pueblo People. The era began with the cultivation of maize in the northern American southwest, although there was not a dependence upon agriculture until about 500 BC.-Basketmaker origin:The...		1200 BCE - 50 CE
		Late Basketmaker II Era Late Basketmaker II Era The Late Basketmaker II Era was a cultural period of Ancient Pueblo People when people began living in pit-houses, raised maize and squash, and were proficient basket makers and weavers...		50 CE - 500 CE
		Basketmaker III Era Basketmaker III Era The Basketmaker III Era, AD 500 to 750, also called the "Modified Basketmaker" period, was the third period in which Ancient Pueblo People were cultivating food, began making pottery and living in more sophisticated clusters of pit-house dwellings...		500 CE - 750 CE
		Pueblo I Era Pueblo I Era The Pueblo I Era, from AD 750 to 900, was the first period in which Ancient Pueblo People began living in pueblo structures and realized an evolution in architecture, artistic expression, and water conservation...		750 CE - 900 CE
		Pueblo II Era Pueblo II Era The Pueblo II Era, AD 900 to 1150, was the second pueblo period of the Ancient Pueblo People of the Four Corners region of the American southwest. During this period people lived in dwellings made of stone and mortar, enjoyed communal activities in kivas, built towers and water conversing dams,...		900 CE - 1150 CE
		Pueblo III Era Pueblo III Era The Pueblo III Era, AD 1150 to 1350, was the third period, also called the "Great Pueblo period" when Ancient Pueblo People lived in large cliff-dwelling, multi-storied pueblo, or cliff-side talus house communities...		1150 CE - 1350 CE
		Pueblo IV Era Pueblo IV Era The Pueblo IV Era, was the fourth period of ancient pueblo life in the American Southwest. At the end of prior Pueblo III Era, Anasazi living in the Colorado and Utah regions abandoned their settlements and migrated south to the Little Colorado River and Rio Grande River valleys...		1350 CE - 1600 CE
		Pueblo V Era Pueblo V Era The Pueblo V Era, is the final period of ancient pueblo culture in the American Southwest and includes the modern Puebloan peoples. From the previous Pueblo IV Era, all 19 of the Rio Grande valley pueblos remained in the modern era. The only remaining pueblos are Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo in Texas...		1600 CE - present
	in Southwest and by peoples	Ancient Pueblo Peoples Ancient Pueblo Peoples Ancient Pueblo People or Ancestral Pueblo peoples were an ancient Native American culture centered on the present-day Four Corners area of the United States, comprising southern Utah, northern Arizona, northwest New Mexico, and southern Colorado... (Anasazi)		1 CE - 1300 CE
		Hohokam Hohokam Hohokam is one of the four major prehistoric archaeological Oasisamerica traditions of what is now the American Southwest. Many local residents put the accent on the first syllable . Variant spellings in current, official usage include Hobokam, Huhugam and Huhukam...		200 CE - 1450 CE
		Fremont Fremont culture The Fremont culture or Fremont people is a pre-Columbian archaeological culture which received its name from the Fremont River in the U.S. state of Utah where the first Fremont sites were discovered. The Fremont River itself is named for John Charles Frémont, an American explorer. It inhabited...		400 CE - 1350 CE
		Patayan Patayan Patayan is a term used by archaeologists to describe prehistoric and historic Native American cultures who inhabited parts of modern day Arizona, west to Lake Cahuilla in California, and in Baja California, between 700–1550 CE...		700 CE - 1550 CE
		Mogollon		700 CE - 1400 CE
	in East and by peoples	Early Woodland Period 1000 BCE - 1 CE	Adena culture Adena culture The Adena culture was a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 1000 to 200 BC, in a time known as the early Woodland Period. The Adena culture refers to what were probably a number of related Native American societies sharing a burial complex and ceremonial system...	1000 BCE - 100 BCE
			Deptford culture Deptford culture The Deptford culture was characterized by the appearance of elaborate ceremonial complexes, increasing social and opolitical complexity, mound burial, permanent settlements, population growth, and an increasing reliance on cultigens....	800 BCE - 200 CE
		Middle Woodland Period 1 - 500	Hopewell culture Hopewell culture The Hopewell tradition is the term used to describe common aspects of the Native American culture that flourished along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern United States from 200 BCE to 500 CE. The Hopewell tradition was not a single culture or society, but a widely dispersed set of related...	200 BCE - 400 CE
			Havana Hopewell culture Havana Hopewell culture The Havana Hopewell culture were a Hopewellian people in the Illinois River and Mississippi River valleys in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri from 200 BCE to 400 CE... (a Hopewellian culture)	200 BCE to 400 CE
			Kansas City Hopewell Kansas City Hopewell The Kansas City Hopewell were the farthest west regional variation of the Hopewell tradition of the Middle Woodland period . Sites were located in Kansas and Missouri around the mouth of the Kansas River where it enters the Missouri River... (a Hopewellian culture)	100 BCE – 700 CE
			Swift Creek culture Swift Creek culture The Swift Creek culture was a Middle Woodland period archaeological culture in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee, dating to around 100-800 CE. In Florida, Swift Creek ceremonial practices and burial complexes are referred to technically as the Yent-Green Point complex... (a Hopewellian culture)	100–500
			Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture The Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture was characterized by the appearance of elaborate ceremonial complexes, increasing social and political complexity, mound burial, permanent settlements, population growth, and an increasing reliance on cultigens. "Santa Rosa" is associated with the archeological... (a Hopewellian culture)	100–300
			Marksville culture Marksville culture The Marksville culture was an archaeological culture in the lower Lower Mississippi valley, Yazoo valley, and Tensas valley areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas and extended eastward along the Gulf Coast to the Mobile Bay area, from 100 BCE to 400 CE. This culture takes its name... (a Hopewellian culture)	1 - 400 CE
			Fourche Maline culture Fourche Maline culture The Fourche Maline culture was a Woodland Period Native American culture that existed from 300 BCE to 800 CE, in southeastern Oklahoma, southwestern Arkansas, northwestern Louisiana, and northeastern Texas. They are considered to be one of the main ancestral groups of the Caddoan Mississippian...	300 BCE to 800 CE
			Copena culture (a Hopewellian culture)	1 - 500 CE
		Late Woodland Period 500–1000	Baytown culture Baytown culture The Baytown culture was a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 300 to 700 CE in the lower Mississippi River Valley, consisting of sites in eastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, Louisiana, and western Mississippi. The Baytown Site on the White River in Monroe County, Arkansas is...	300–700 CE
			Plum Bayou culture Plum Bayou culture Plum Bayou culture is a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that lived in what is now east-central Arkansas from 650—1050 CE, a time known as the Late Woodland Period...	400–900 CE
			Troyville culture Troyville culture The Troyville culture is an archaeological culture in areas of Louisiana and Arkansas in the Lower Mississippi valley in the southern United States. It was a Baytown Period culture and lasted from 400 to 700 CE during the Late Woodland period...	300–700 CE
			Coles Creek culture Coles Creek culture Coles Creek culture is a Late Woodland archaeological culture in the Lower Mississippi valley in the southern United States. It followed the Troyville culture. The period marks a significant change in the cultural history of the area...	700–1100 CE
		Mississippian culture Mississippian culture The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally.... 900–1500 (ending with European contact)	Early Mississippian culture	1000 - 1200 CE
			Middle Mississippian culture	1200–1400 CE
			Late Mississippian culture	1400–1500 CE (or European contact)
		Fort Ancient Fort Ancient Fort Ancient is a name for a Native American culture that flourished from 1000-1750 CE among a people who predominantly inhabited land along the Ohio River in areas of modern-day Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, Southeastern Indiana and Western West Virginia. They were a maize based agricultural... (a non-Mississippian culture)		1000 - 1550 CE
	in Florida and adjacent parts of Alabama and Georgia, by culture	Weeden Island culture Weeden Island culture The Weeden Island Culture is one of the many archaeological cultures that existed during the Late Woodland period of the North American Southeast... 100–1000 CE	Cades Pond culture Cades Pond culture The Cades Pond culture is defined as a Middle Woodland Southeast period archaeological culture in north-central Florida, dating from around 200 to 700 CE.-Geography:...	100–700 CE
			Kolomaki culture Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park The Kolomoki Mounds are the largest and oldest Woodland period mound complex in the Southeastern United States and currently stand in present day Early County, Georgia, near the Chattahoochee River. The mounds were named a National Historic Landmark in 1964...	350–750
			McKeithen Weeden Island culture	200–700
			Weeden Island I Weeden Island culture The Weeden Island Culture is one of the many archaeological cultures that existed during the Late Woodland period of the North American Southeast...	200–750
			Weeden Island II Weeden Island culture The Weeden Island Culture is one of the many archaeological cultures that existed during the Late Woodland period of the North American Southeast...	750–1000
		Wakulla culture		750–1000
		Fort Walton culture Fort Walton Culture Fort Walton Culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in southeastern North America, from approximately 1100~1550 CE.... a Mississippian culture		1000 - European contact
		Pensacola culture		1250 - European contact
		Suwannee Valley culture		750 - European contact
		Alachua culture Alachua culture The Alachua culture is defined as a Late Woodland Southeast period archaeological culture in north-central Florida, dating from around AD700 to 1700. It is found in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Alachua County, the northern half of Marion County and the western part of Putnam County...		700 - European contact
		Manasota culture		550 BCE - 800 CE
		Safety Harbor culture		800 - European contact
		Caloosahatchee culture Caloosahatchee culture The Caloosahatchee culture is an archaeological culture on the Gulf coast of Southwest Florida that lasted from about 500 to 1750 CE. Its territory consisted of the coast from Estero Bay to Charlotte Harbor and inland about halfway to Lake Okeechobee, approximately covering what are now Charlotte...		500 BCE - European contact
		St. Johns culture St. Johns culture The St. Johns culture was an archaeological culture in northeastern Florida, USA that lasted from about 500 BCE until shortly after European contact in the 17th century. The St. Johns culture was present along the St. Johns River and its tributaries The St. Johns culture was an archaeological...		550 BCE - European contact
		Belle Glade culture Belle Glade culture The Belle Glade culture, or Okeechobee culture, is an archaeological culture that existed from as early as 1000 BCE until about 1700 in the area surrounding Lake Okeechobee and in the Kissimmee River valley in the U.S...		1050 BCE - European contact
		Glades culture Glades culture The Glades culture is an archaeological culture in southernmost Florida that lasted from about 500 BCE until shortly after European contact. Its area included the Everglades, the Florida Keys, the Atlantic coast of Florida north through present-day Martin County and the Gulf coast north to Marco...		550 BCE - European contact

Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley

Lower Mississippi Periods	Lower Yazoo Phases	Lower Yazoo Dates	Tensas/Natchez Phases	Cahokia Cahokia Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is the area of an ancient indigenous city located in the American Bottom floodplain, between East Saint Louis and Collinsville in south-western Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. The site included 120 human-built earthwork mounds... Phases	Cahokia Dates	Ohio/Miss. River Confluence Phases	Ohio/Miss. Dates
Historic	Russell	1650–1750 CE	Tensas / Natchez	Vacant Quarter	1350 CE - European Contact European colonization of the Americas The start of the European colonization of the Americas is typically dated to 1492. The first Europeans to reach the Americas were the Vikings during the 11th century, who established several colonies in Greenland and one short-lived settlement in present day Newfoundland...	Jackson	1500-1650 CE
Plaquemine Mississippian culture Late Plaquemine/Mississippian Middle Plaquemine/Mississippian Early Plaquemine/Mississippian	Wasp Lake	1400-1650 CE	Translyvania / Emerald	Vacant Quarter		Jackson	1500-1650 CE
	Lake George	1300-1400 CE	Fitzhugh / Foster	Sand Prairie	1275-1350 CE	Medley Phase	1300-1500 CE
	Winterville Winterville Site The Winterville Site is an archaeological site consisting of platform substructure mounds and plazas that is the type site for the Winterville Phase of the Lower Yazoo Basin region...	1200-1300 CE	Routh / Anna	Moorehead Moorehead Phase Moorehead Phase:Moorehead Phase : An archaeological phase of the Cahokia and environs from years 1200 - 1275 CE.Moorehead Phase of the Laurentian Tradition or the Moorehead burial tradition: The Red Paint People, who used large quantities of ochre, normally red, to cover both bodies and grave...	1200-1275 CE	Dorena	1100-1300 CE
Transitional Coles Creek	Crippen Point	1050-1200 CE	Preston / Gordon	Lohmann Sterling	1050-1200 CE	Dorena	1100-1300 CE
Coles Creek culture Coles Creek culture Coles Creek culture is a Late Woodland archaeological culture in the Lower Mississippi valley in the southern United States. It followed the Troyville culture. The period marks a significant change in the cultural history of the area... Late Coles Creek Middle Coles Creek Early Coles Creek	Kings Crossing	950-1050 CE	Balmoral	Terminal Late Woodland	900–1050 CE	James Bayou	900-1100 CE
	Aden	800-950 CE	Ballina	Terminal Late Woodland	900–1050 CE	James Bayou	900-1100 CE
	Bayland	600-800 CE	Sundown	Late Woodland	400–900 CE	Cane Hills Berkley	600–900 CE 400–600 CE
Baytown Baytown culture The Baytown culture was a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 300 to 700 CE in the lower Mississippi River Valley, consisting of sites in eastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, Louisiana, and western Mississippi. The Baytown Site on the White River in Monroe County, Arkansas is... /Troyville Troyville culture The Troyville culture is an archaeological culture in areas of Louisiana and Arkansas in the Lower Mississippi valley in the southern United States. It was a Baytown Period culture and lasted from 400 to 700 CE during the Late Woodland period... Baytown 2 Baytown 1	Deasonville	500-600 CE	Marsden
	Little Sunflower	400-500 CE	Indian Bayou
Marksville culture Marksville culture The Marksville culture was an archaeological culture in the lower Lower Mississippi valley, Yazoo valley, and Tensas valley areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas and extended eastward along the Gulf Coast to the Mobile Bay area, from 100 BCE to 400 CE. This culture takes its name... Late Marksville Early Marksville	Issaquena	200-400 CE	Issaquena	Middle Woodland	200 BCE - 400 CE	La Plant Burkett	100 BCE-400 CE 550-100 BCE
	Anderson Landing	0-200 CE	Point Lake/ Grand Gulf
Tchefuncte culture	Tuscola	400 BCE-0 CE	Panther Lake
Jaketown	Poverty Point Poverty Point culture Poverty Point culture is an archaeological culture that corresponds to an ancient group of Indigenous peoples who inhabited the area of the lower Mississippi Valley and surrounding Gulf coast from about 2200 BCE - 700 BCE...	700- 400 BCE	Frasier	Early Woodland	700-200 BCE	O'Bryan Ridge	700-550 BCE
-		1000-700 BCE	-	Late Archaic	1000 - 200 BCE	O'Bryan Ridge	700-550 BCE

Stage classification

Table of archaeological periods North America

Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley

See also