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The area now covered by Texas comprised three major indigenous cultures which had reached their developmental peak prior to the arrival of European explorers and are known from Archaeology. These were:

  • Pueblo - who occupied the western edge of Texas
  • Mound builder culture who probably came from the Mississippi Valley region and occupied the the center-east part of Texas. They were probably ancestral to the Caddo nation.
  • The civilizations of Mesoamerica who extended their influence and culture from northern Mexico into south-central Texas. This culture peaked around AD 500 and declined over the 8th to 10th centuries.

No one culture was dominant in the present-day Texas region and many different peoples inhabited the area. Native American tribes that lived inside the boundaries of present-day Texas include the Alabama, Apache, Atakapan, Bidai, Caddo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coushatta, Hasinai, Jumano, Karankawa, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, and Wichita.

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