The Old Cordilleran Culture, also known as the Cascade phase, is an ancient culture of Native Americans that settled in the Pacific Northwest that existed from 9000 or 10000 BC until about 5500 BC. It is thought it may be even older, depending on when human beings first arrived in America. They originated in Alaska, and migrated to occupy a wide area as far as Idaho and the plateaus of California, but they are generally not considered to be a maritime society. However their spearpoints, or at least what resembles them, have been found as far as Mexico and South America.^[1] This was the typical artifact of these people—a simple, bifacial, leaf-shaped projectile point which average about 6 cm (2.4 in) in length. These tools were used as spears or darts, or also knives, indicating the importance of hunting, although in general they also fished and gathered for subsistence. However the main dependence was on land hunting, mostly of deer, bison, and othr large mammals.^[2][3] The culture was possibly spoke a Macro-Penutian language, a parent of Penutian, Utaztecan, and other language families.^[1] This culture also created the oldest attested examples of art in the Pacific Northwest.^[4] The Pacific Northwest from space This page is about the region that includes parts of Canada and the United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The Penutian is a phylum (or stock) of language families that include many Native American languages of western North America, predominantly spoken at one time in Washington, Oregon, and California. ...

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