North America
Plateau/Basin 1
7,000 years ago=
Some of the pygmy mammoth population moves inland while remnant populations of the camelops survive. Both have butterflies later on.
6,000 years ago=
The ancestors of the ,Salish and Chinook maintain oak savannas similar to interior California tribes and also begin to stay close to camas fields,eventually cultivating them. Meanwhile in the Basin, some of the ancestors of the Paiute and Shoshone still followed Archaic Desert Tradition and being nomadic. In California,some of the Chumash split and went to the interior using cooperative hunting. In time,these groups would become intertwined. Some might would say it was more the women behind it than the men. That maybe a young Paiute girl migrated northward and married an Interior Salish man,bringing her knowledge into the tribe. Basically,these were small breakaway bands that migrated and intermarried. Maybe they were outcasts? Calamity perhaps? Orphans and elderly without family to take care of them? Perhaps all of that. Anyway,there was an alliance beginning.
5,000 years ago=Some people of the Fremont culture migrate to the Basin/Plateau area. More than likely due to a combination of infighting and seeking new trade. Their influence spread and they themselves were influenced.
4,000 years ago=By now,agriculture was common. They were planting blue camas,bitter root and kouseroot(desert parsley) as tubers. The maintaining of oak savannas also helped them to keep chokecherry bushes, laurel sumac and thickleave yerba santa in the vicinity. Wila,a lichen that grows on trees was encouraged. All this would help attract desired wildlife. And since they were using drives and corrals in hunting,this would help in other ways.
3,500 years ago=Due to some drought some of the people had taken to capturing animals using corrals and drives. In time,they would begin to breed them. What they preferred were bighorn sheep and mountain goats, then later on shrub-ox,peccary and camelops. The oak savanna system worked well with them becoming a form of sylvopasture. The prairie chicken also saw domestication at this time. A boon in domesticating bighorn sheep and mountain goats was the abundance of wool which was important to these people who were beginning to be famous for their weaving.
3,000 years ago= Some discover that the camelops can be ridden which helps with migration and travel. The pygmy mammoth begins to be captured and tamed if not domesticated. But,similar to the Thai in Asia,they come close! Some of the people begin to see themselves as if not Fremont,then the inheritors of Fremont.
A few things to note about these people. The men have facial hair. From long mustaches to full beards,they don't have an aversion to facial hair. Slavery is huge as it was for the coastal people,along with potlaches,carvings and a highly artistic society. They're still as martial as their kin on the coast and more than willing to expand. They basically become a huge pain to both Mound Builders and Cliff Dwellers. For they will expand eastward adapting the prairie turnip and little breadroot to their agriculture.
2,000 years ago= Yes,this alliance of Salish,Chinook,Paiute,Shoshone and Chumash forge their way inwards all the way to the Great Lakes,where they are defeated in combat by the Old Copper Complex and Mound Builders. They then retreat back to the Plateau and Basin where they stay dominant and keep copper weapons. They will eventually learn iron. They Pacific Northwest tribes of the Coast and the Chumash of California progress at the same rate only with domesticated bighorn sheep,mountain goats,shrub-ox,camelops and tamed pygmy mammoths. They still raid as far south as Mesoamerica and some begin raiding in Siberia where they capture pygmy woolly mammoths which crossbreed with regular pygmy mammoths. They also bring back slaves from Siberia.
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