Indian Artifacts: North America

Indian artifacts: North America. There were several theories about the origin of the early human population of North America. The Indigenous peoples of North America themselves have many creation stories.

Before contact with Europeans, the Indians of North America divided into many different polities,. They lived in several culture areas, such as North American Southwest,  which roughly correspond to geographic and biological zones and the artifacts found in the culture area, give a good indication of the main lifeway or occupation of the people who lived there.

North American history in the first millenium, provides a time line of events occurring within the present political boundaries of United States (including territories) from AD 1 through AD 1000. Although this time line segment may include some European or other world events that profoundly influenced later American life, it focuses on developments within Native American (and Polynesian) communities. Because the indigenous peoples of these regions lacked a written language, we must glean events from the admittedly very incomplete archaeological record and place them in time through radiocarbon dating techniques.