  PALEO-INDIANS, BIG GAME HUNTERS, DISCOVER A NEW WORLD (50,000? to 8,000? B.C.) [5] ARCHAIC MAN, FIRST SETTLER IN ILLINOIS (8000 to 2500 B.C.) [6] THE INITIAL WOODLAND CULTURES [9] (2500-500 B.C.) THE FOOD STORERS (BAUMER AND CRAB ORCHARD CULTURES) (1000?-100 B.C.?) THE HOPEWELLIAN CIVILIZATION [12] (500 B.C.-500 A.D.) THE DARK AGE IN ILLINOIS FINAL WOODLAND (200 to 900 A.D.) A SECOND PLANT-RAISING CIVILIZATION THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPIANS (1000-1500 A.D.) UNDER-DEVELOPED NEIGHBORS THE UPPER MISSISSIPPIANS (1100?-1600 A.D.) THE ILLINOIS OR ILLINI [17] (1550?-1833 A.D.) SUMMARY OF ILLINOIS PREHISTORY CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL UNITS M. M. Leighton, Ph. D., Chairman Illinois Geological Survey, Urbana Everett P. Coleman, M. D. Coleman Clinic Canton Percival Robertson, Ph. D. The Principia College Elsah N. W. McGee, Ph. D. North Central College Naperville Sol Tax, Ph. D. University of Chicago Chicago Copyright by STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPT. OF REGISTRATION & EDUCATION—ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM STORY OF ILLINOIS SERIES, No. 9 AMERICAN INDIAN WAYS OF LIFEAn Interpretation of the Archaeology of Illinois and Adjoining Areas by Seal of the State of Illinois Springfield, Illinois [Printed by authority of the State of Illinois] Site of the ancient Middle Mississippi religious city on the Kincaid farm near Metropolis, Illinois, as it is today. Four mounds can be seen; the village area is in the foreground and the plaza at the right (south) of the largest mound with house on it. |
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