Timeline of the Ancient Mound Builders

 

14,000 B.C.

Paleo-Indian Earliest known humans in North America
5,000 B.C. Archaic

Earliest known mound site,
Poverty Point in Louisiana, 1,500 B.C.
Pottery first appears, 2,000 B.C.
Inter-regional trade begins

500 B.C. Early Woodland

Adena Culture
Intensive inter-regional trade
Horticulture
0 Middle Woodland

Hopewell Culture:
Havana People and Crab
Orchard People in Illinois
Trade network expands
Newark earthworks built

500 A.D. Late Woodland Emergent Mississippian Culture
1,100 A.D. Mississippian

Mississippian Culture
Caddoan Culture Area
Monk's Mound at Cahokia built
Extensive use of bow and arrow
Development of intense maize agriculture

1,650 A.D. Historic European contact in the Upper Mississippi Valley