Ancient Fermilab: The Mier Collection of Native American Artifacts
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Ancient Fermilab:The Mier Collection of Native
American Artifacts
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Native American Cultural Chronology
• Paleoindian – 12,000 – 10,000 years ago• Archaic – 10,000 – 3,000 years ago• Woodland – 3,000 – 1,100 years ago• Mississippian – 1,100 – 700 years ago• Late Prehistoric – 700 – 329 years ago• European Contact – 329 years ago
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Archaeological sites at Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory
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Mier Collection Artifacts
• Paleoindian 5/2%• Early Archaic 86/26%• Middle Archaic 83/26%• Late Archaic 86/26%• Late Archaic/Early Woodland 17/5%• Late Woodland 3/1%• Mississippian/Late Prehistoric 45/14%
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Cultural Context of the Meir Fermilab Collection
An overview of cultural periods illustrated with artifacts from Native American sites in Illinois.
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Paleoindian
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Paleoindian spear points
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A Paleoindian family
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Mastodon hunters
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Archaeological sites near
Nelson Lake
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Archaic
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Early Archaic spear points
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Archaic Grooved Axes
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Archaic dart points
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Hunting with an atlatl
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Gathering seeds and collecting
fish
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Woodland
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Harvesting Squash
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Middle Woodland Pot
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Middle Woodland
Platform Pipe
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Dongola chert disks
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Mica
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Woodland Copper Adze
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Middle Woodland
Platform Pipe
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Woodland village
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Mississippian
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Mississippian arrow points
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Mississippian hoe
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Cultivating corn outside a
Mississippian village
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Mississippian Birger Figurine
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Mississippian marine shell
maskette
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Mississippian wooden mask
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Mississippian town
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Late Prehistoric
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Late Prehistoric Oneota pot
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Late Prehistoric Oneota fish
lures
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Late Prehistoric conflict
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European Contact
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French crucifix
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European glass beads
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Historic Village
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In 1845, 12,000 years after the arrival of their ancestors, the
last Native American tribe in Illinois was forcibly removed .
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Today, although all of the tribes once-
resident in Illinois live elsewhere, thousands of Native Americans call Illinois home.