California Archaic hunter-gatherers

California Archaic hunter-gatherers appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Pacific Coast and California (North America) from c. 3200 BCE to 500 CE, a span of more than 3,700 years. Its people spoke Unknown or undeciphered languages (Indus, Minoan, Moche, Nazca, Chavin, Jomon and other unattested languages).

Foragers of the California coast and valleys who ground acorns and seeds with mortars and milling stones and fished from shell-mound villages around San Francisco Bay.

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Facts

Dates

c. 3200 BCE to 500 CE

Duration

more than 3,700 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Pacific Coast and California, North America

Language family

Unknown or undeciphered

Events in North America during its time

• 2500 BCE Paleo-Eskimos settle the eastern Arctic
• 2100 BCE Maize reaches the Southwest
• 1600 BCE Poverty Point earthworks built
• 100 Hopewell exchange network at its height

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Minoan civilization c. 3100 to 1450 BCE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Middle East
• Ghana Empire (Wagadu) c. 300 to 1200 CE, North and West Africa
• Kingdom of Aksum c. 100 to 940 CE, North and West Africa
• Moche (Mochica) c. 100 to 800 CE, South America
• Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE, North and West Africa
• Teotihuacan c. 100 BCE to 550 CE, Mesoamerica and Caribbean
• Tiwanaku c. 400 to 1000 CE, South America
• Shang dynasty c. 1600 to 1046 BCE, East Asia

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