North America

Arctic & Subarctic

Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland. The far north is where the atlatl outlasted the bow’s arrival by more than a thousand years — north of the 55th parallel the two were used side by side long after the Southwest had switched.

Chronology here

The periods whose terminology is used in the Arctic & Subarctic.

Early Paleoindianc. 13,000 – 10,900 BCE
Middle Paleoindianc. 10,900 – 10,200 BCE
Late Paleoindianc. 10,200 – 8,000 BCE
Early Archaicc. 8,000 – 6,000 BCE
Middle Archaicc. 6,000 – 3,000 BCE
Late Archaicc. 3,000 – 1,200 BCE
Transitional Archaicc. 1,500 – 1,000 BCE
Contactc. 1,500 – 1,750 CE
Historicc. 1,750 CE onward

Quiz on the Arctic & Subarctic

Chronology here