8th millennium BC in North American history

9th millennium BC - 8th millennium BC - 7th millennium BC

The 8th millennium BC in North American history provides a timeline of events occurring within the North American continent from 8000 BC through 7001 BC in the Gregorian calendar. Although this timeline segment may include some European or other world events that profoundly influenced later American life, it focuses on developments within Native American communities. The archaeological records supplements indigenous recorded and oral history.

Because of the inaccuracies inherent in radiocarbon dating and in interpreting other elements of the archaeological record, most dates in this timeline represent approximations that may vary a century or more from source to source. The assumptions implicit in archaeological dating methods also may yield a general bias in the dating in this timeline.

Drawing of a mastodon skeleton by Rembrandt Peale

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