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  Tucson's Timeline: Before 10,500 B.C.


Studying Tucson's Past 
Rio Nuevo Artifacts: Ceramics from Tucson's Past
Early Agricultural, Hohokam and Historic Period Pottery
History:
Tucson's Timeline
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Time in YearsTime Period Name
Before 10,500 B.C.Pre-Clovis?
10,500 B.C. to 9,200 B.C.Paleoindian
9,200 B.C. to 1200 B.C.Archaic Period
1200 B.C. to A.D. 150Early Agriculture
A.D. 150 to A.D. 650Early Ceramic Period
A.D. 650 to A.D. 1150Pre-Classic Hohokam
A.D. 1150 to A.D. 1450Classic Hohokam
A.D. 1450 to A.D. 1691Proto-Historic Periods
A.D. 1691Historic Period Begins
A.D. 1700Historic Period

A.D. 1770
A.D. 1775
A.D. 1800
A.D. 1821
A.D. 1854
A.D. 1862
A.D. 1912
The PresentThe Present
  Tucson's Timeline: Before 10,500 B.C.


The period before 10,500 B.C. remains an archaeological mystery. While some archaeologists now believe that people may have lived in the Americas before 10,500 B.C., there is no evidence for people in the Southwest before this date.





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