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What is the oldest American Indian tribe?
The Clovis culture, the earliest definitively-dated Paleo-Indians in the Americas, appears around 11,500 RCBP (radiocarbon years Before Present), equivalent to 13,500 to 13,000 calendar years ago.
What era is Native American?
The history of American Indians before European contact is broadly divided into three major periods: the Paleo-Indian period, the Archaic period (8000–1000 b.c.), and the Woodland period (1000 b.c.–1600 a.d.).
When did Native Americans leave the Stone Age?
Archaeologists contend that Paleo-Indians migrated out of Beringia (western Alaska), between c. 40,000 and c. 16,500 years ago. This time range remains a source of substantial debate.
Did natives have bronze?
While bronze working was advanced in the Americas, it was certainly not mass produced, and they were never able to develop the advanced smelting techniques necessary to extract iron from ore, probably because they never needed to for copper.
Why was there no Bronze Age in the Americas?
South America had advanced metallurgy, and they could have had the lost copper alloy, plus bronze, and they were very skilled artisans in gold and silver works. Tons of silver alloys were holding the blocks of Tiawanaku together, causing the Spaniards to destroy much in search of them. “
Did Native Americans reach Iron Age?
Iron was never smelted by Native Americans, thus the New World never entered a proper ‘Iron Age’ before European discovery, and the term is not used of the Americas. Various forms of iron ore were mined, drilled and highly polished.
Where did the Bronze Age people get their metals?
Vast copper deposits in Chile, Argentina (still mostly untapped a millennia later), and Bolivia would have sustained a massive Bronze Age given a few more centuries. Bolivia has both tin (for bronze) and zinc (for brass) along with a great deal of mining before the Spanish.
What kind of metal did the Sican Indians use?
The Sican culture of north western coastal Peru is famous for its use of arsenical bronze and other metals during the period 900 to 1350 AD. There was also a culture in Mesoamerica that officially entered into the Bronze Age when they started to make items from actual bronze, including needles, fishhooks, tweezers, axeheads, and awls.
Why did bronze work develop in the Andes?
In the Andes, where bronze working was well-developed by 200CE, the answer can be explained by a lack of demand. In Europe, metallurgy developed for a few key reasons: transportation, agriculture, and warfare. However there wasn’t a demand for more advanced metallurgy in these areas.