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- Ancient Native Americans were among the world's first coppersmiths
New dates show people worked pure ore nearly 10,000 years ago around the Great Lakes
- Stone Age - Prehistoric Americas, Tools, Artifacts
Stone Age - Prehistoric Americas, Tools, Artifacts: The prehistoric sequence in the so-called New World shares many essential developmental features with the Old World and provides a test for generalizations about cultural development based upon Old World materials. In the New World there is evidence for an early horizon of early food collectors, followed by an increasing specialization of food collecting based primarily upon differences in localized resources. These specialized collectors were followed by a tradition of food production independent of the Old World. With food production came gradual increases in centers of population; villages were succeeded by towns and finally by centers of urban civilizations. The
- Arts of the Ancient Americas - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Following a multiyear renovation, the new installation reintroduces visitors to the Museum’s collection of ancestral arts of the Americas, representing the artistic legacy of Indigenous artists from across North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean prior to 1600 CE.
- Tally of bones, artifacts reveals 2000 years of population swings among Indigenous Americans
Tens of thousands of radiocarbon dates track different regions’ population history before European arrival
- Ancient Americans made art deep within the dark zones of caves throughout the Southeast
For thousands of years, Native Americans left their artistic mark deep within caves in the American Southeast. It wasn’t until 1980 that these ancient visual expressions were known to archaeologists.