Archaeology of the Americas

The archaeology of the Western Hemisphere, including North America (Mesoamerica), Central America, South America and the Caribbean, includes the study of pre-historic/pre-Columbian and historic Indigenous American peoples, as well as historical archaeology of more recent eras, including the trans-Atlantic slave trade and European colonization. == Chronology == The pre-Columbian era is the term generally used to encompass all time period subdivisions in the history of the Americas spanning the time from the original settlement of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic until the European colonization of the Americas during the early modern period.

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