| TIMELINE OF THE AMERICAS UP TO 200AD | |||||||||
| 13,000 | First crossings to Alaska and the Yukon in North America over the Bering Strait. | ||||||||
| 11,000 | Early humans arrive in Chile | ||||||||
| 9,000 | Clovis hunter gatherrs begin to hunt Bison in the plains of North Armica | ||||||||
| 7,500 | The world's earliest known cemetry found in Arkansas, US. | ||||||||
| 7,000 | Earliest crops gron in Mexico | ||||||||
| 6,500 | Grain grown in Peru | ||||||||
| 3,500 | Fishing villages flourish along Peruvian coast. | ||||||||
| 3,500 | Cotton introduced as a crop in Peruvian coastal villags | ||||||||
| 2,500 | Paloma site on Chilce river on the Peruvian Coast is abandoned | ||||||||
| 2,500 | Maize becomes staple diet throughout central America | ||||||||
| 2,000 | Andean settlements with ceremonial centres thrive in Peru | ||||||||
| 1,800 | Ceremonial platform sites are built at Kotosh in Peru | ||||||||
| 1,800 | Ceremonial centre with pyramid raised at El Paraiso, near Lima Peru. | ||||||||
| 1,500 | First gravel platforms built at Olmec site in San Lorenzo, Mexico | ||||||||
| 1,400 | Development of farming and village life at Copan in the Honduras. | ||||||||
| 1,200 | Rise of Olmec civilisation on the Coast of the Gulf of Mexico | ||||||||
| 1,200 | Chavin Culture grows up at Ceroo Sechin on Peruvian Coast | ||||||||
| 1,000 | Olmec city of Cuicuilco west of San Lorenzo expands. | ||||||||
| 1,000 | La venta becomes a major Olmec centre of houses and shops | ||||||||
| 900 | Paracas in Peru develops ceremonial centre | Trophy head vvessels& Oculate Being | |||||||
| 900 | Chavin Culture develops in Chavin de Huantar in the Peruvian Andes | ||||||||
| 850 | Pervuvians make pilgrimages to worship the Smiling God in the Temple of Chavin de Huantar | ||||||||
| 700 | Olmecs abandon centre at San Lorenzo | ||||||||
| 600 | Oaxaca culture grows stronger than Olmec | ||||||||
| 550 | Oaxaca establish centre at Monte Alban in Southeast Mexico. | ||||||||
| 400 | Farming families first occupy site at Tiahuanaco in Bolivia | ||||||||
| 325 | End of La Venta, centre of Olmec Culture in Mexico | ||||||||
| 300 | End of Chavin Culture in Peru | ||||||||
| 300-100 | Growing city of Teotihuacan comes to dominate valley of Mexico | ||||||||
| 200 | Beginning of Early Classic Maya civilisation in central America | ||||||||
| 200 | Beginning of Nazca culture in southern Peru | ||||||||
| 1 | El Mirador in northern Guatamala is at its height | ||||||||
| 1 | Teotihuacan in Mexico has a population of c. 40,000 | ||||||||
| 50 | Nazca Culture in Peru flourish and create vast enigmatic lines and patterns in the desert | ||||||||
| 100-200 | Monte Alban centre in Oaxaca, Mexico at the greatest extent of its power | ||||||||
| Mayan writing developed | |||||||||