Archaic stage (8000 BCE - 1000 BCE)

Excavations in the Altiplano Cundiboyacense (the highlands of Cundinamarca and Boyacá departments) show evidence of human activity since the Archaic stage at the beginning of the Holocene era.

Archaic stage (c. 8000 - 1000 BC)

The Maritime Archaic is one cultural complex among several of the Archaic stage for North American peoples.

It followed the Archaic stage and was superseded by the Classic stage.

Evidence exists that humans were in Indiana as early as the Archaic stage (8000-6000 BC).

During the Archaic stage, from 6000 - 1000 BC, Wisconsin was inhabited by the Boreal Archaic and the Old Copper Indians.

The Lithic stage was followed by the Archaic stage.

In the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages first proposed by Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips in 1958, the Archaic stage or "Meso-Indian period" was the second period of human occupation in the Americas, from around 8000 to 2000 BC.

The Archaic stage is characterized by subsistence economies supported through the exploitation of nuts, seeds, and shellfish.