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Illinois Pre-History
When did humans first come to North America? This question has been hotly debated for over a century, especially now with the recent involvement in the last Ice Age. According to established theory, sometime during the Pleistocene, around 13,000 years ago, the final neat eastern ice sail, the Laurentian, reached down simply to Wisconsin and was already receding. [ ane ] Paleo Indian had immigrated across the Bering Sea by the land span of the Aleutian Island chain (known as Beringia) from Siberia into North America and followed a corridor southward between the retreating ice sheets, peradventure to hunt wooly mammoth.
A more than recent theory propose prehistoric Solutreans of Ice Historic period France as well sailed west to America across the Atlantic Bounding main along the south ridge of the polar water ice cap more eighteen,000 years agone. Information technology is thought they brought Clovis point technology (before, similar points were found in France) and genetic diversity (such as carmine hair and large noses) to Native Americans. [ 2 ] Nonetheless, genetic markers plant in Native Americans of various tribes point more than towards Asian ancestry. Even more than recent findings [ iii ] suggest that humans came to North America equally far back as 50,000 years ago!
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The exact date humans came to North America will not be found presently, but the Hebior and Schaefer Wisconsin mammoth sites about 350 miles northeast of our recovery site were recently carbon-dated to 15,000 to 16,500 years ago and independent artifacts that were basically cutting and skinning tools. [ iv ]
Shangri-La Climate
What was the climate like when people kickoff came here? Northern Illinois has an unusual climate history due to its breadth and geology. The Chicago region in item was in one case under the southern edge of the Wisconsinan ice sheet. When this massive ice canvas started to retreat 18,000 years ago, it depressed the land and created a widen basin:
Much of the city of Chicago lies on embankment and lake sediments deposited past Lake Michigan and its predecessor glacial Lake Chicago. Later the Wisconsin glacier retreated from the Chicago region, it nonetheless occupied and dammed the northern stop of the Lake Michigan bowl, forming glacial Lake Chicago. This lake, which covered about of present-mean solar day Chicago, was higher than modern Lake Michigan.[ v ]
Past analyzing pollen and fossilized vegetation in this ancient Ice Historic period lakebed scientists accept determined that at the endmost of the concluding Ice Age, the southwestern Chicago region and the northern one-half of Illinois was like no other place on earth:
Following the retreat of the glaciers, vegetation invaded the newly ice-free terrain. From virtually 18,000 to 16,000 years agone, open up tundra-similar vegetation with scattered spruce (Picea) trees covered the landscape. Both white spruce (Picea glauca) and blackness spruce (Picea mariana) were present, equally was larch (Larix laricina). These trees are all common today in the boreal forest or taiga of Canada. Although the glaciers had retreated, the climate was all the same quite common cold. Virtually 16,000 years ago, the spruce forest became denser, and airtight forest developed. This spruce forest lasted for about 1,000 years, until about fifteen,000 years ago, when climate warmed and deciduous trees became more abundant, including balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera), black ash (Fraxinus nigra), and ironwood (Ostrya virginiana or Carpinus caroliniana). Balsam fir (Abies balsamea) also was nowadays, as was spruce, although non every bit abundantly as before.
This late-Pleistocene forest of spruce and deciduous trees is unusual in that a wood of similar composition does not occur anywhere today. The implication is that the climate was dissimilar any climate in North America today. The presence of bandbox suggests cool summers, whereas the deciduous trees imply relatively warm winters. Thus, the climate may have been more than equable than information technology is now. Although the Laurentide ice canvass, which still existed to the north, may accept kept the summers cool, it may likewise take blocked arctic air masses from extending into the Midwest during wintertime.[ 5 ]
So there was a warming tendency and a thickening of forestation betwixt 15,000 to 13,000 years ago. According to some, this environs may have driven Mammoth and other large fauna out of their cool grazing lands reducing their numbers into sparsely populated small herds in this region. [vi ]
Infantis oculatus sidereusa
This cheeky little toddler is even cuter in real life. The head is ruby-red and yellow carnelian agate west sparkling clear crystal eyes. Trunk is burn (red and yellow) carnelian equally well. This pre-Columbian artifact was probably a child's toy or female parent'due south keepsake; two parts. two.0"h; 66 gm $65
SOLD to Ken
Most fourteen,000 years agone, at the height of this paradise, the Wisconsinan glacier had retreated to the present shoreline of Lake Michigan, about 250 miles NE of the recovery site. [ 7 ] This probable made our recovery site a very pleasant place for humans to live. It was a lost Garden of Eden with cool summers and warm winters and smaller game were abundant.
Newly discovered prehistoric Native American Indian antiquities and figurine art suggest that surgery and the use of iron is older than previously thought !
What Happened to the Mega Fauna and the Paleo-Indian? Then suddenly everything inverse. A geological black-layer deposit of carbon containing nano-diamonds at over 50 locations in North America tells the tale: About 12,900 years ago a huge Ice Age comet hit the atmosphere just above Canada. The discoverer, Geologist James Kennett, also constitute an abnormally high percentage of these nano-diamonds in a Greenland Glacier at the 12,900-year layer. What happens adjacent is like something out of a Dooms-Day sci-fi movie: The exploding comet creates a giant white-hot tornado and sets forests ablaze killing off just nigh everything and everybody in North America. The remaining vegetation would accept been charred, forcing starvation upon surviving mega fauna. The comet probably did-in Paleo Indian equally well. [ eight ] This comet melted a good portion the Laurentide Water ice Sheet and the resultant flood waters changed the Atlantic currents. This combined with ash and soot in the atmosphere, plunged the Northern Hemisphere into a Mini-Ice Historic period for some other 1,200 years. [ nine ] More bear witness of such a catastrophic alter lies in Lake Chicago lakebed:
About thirteen,000 years agone climate apparently cooled again, and spruce became more than abundant and black ash less common. During this time birch (Betula) and alder (Alnus) were also important components of the vegetation.[ 5 ]
At that fourth dimension, the summers hither were one month shorter than today and rivers had dropped to their almost nowadays levels. By the end of this Mini-Ice Historic period 11,700 years ago, the climate warmed. The ancient lakebed tell united states ...
And so from about 12,000 to 11,500 years ago, the vegetation changed very rapidly as climate suddenly warmed at the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene. [ 5 ]
After the floods, gravity connected its work on the riverstones, over again using h2o every bit a tool, admitting in less dramatic fashion: Since glaciers follow the course of rivers, the exposed rocks were done down and further polished by flowing water. Subsequently it all settled, the ice and floods had cobbled many sections of the clear riverbeds with smooth pebbles and stones - some rare and semiprecious. During this post-glacial flooding, shine rocks with similar specific gravity had congregated in clusters at eddies on selected northern Illinois river bottoms. In these eddy pockets, matching odd-shaped stones were clearly visible, crafted by Mother World�s gravity-hammer and water-chisel. These polished stones would take looked remarkably beautiful nether clear water. Who wouldn't take picked up such interesting and shiny stones in a world where shiny objects were rare? (And how could you lot resist a face looking upwards at you through the sparkling h2o?)
Attention : The following is based on what is currently known virtually ancient peoples, along with the authors speculation, and not intended to be presented equally bodily fact.
The People
Who created this prehistoric Pre-Columbian Indian art? Effectually 11,700 BP (Earlier Nowadays or years ago) the climate became warmer and drier in Illinois promoting the growth of northern confers and central hardwood forests. [ 10 ] Early Archaic Indians (or Late Paleo Indians) came into the region to hunt pocket-sized game with atlatl spears [ xi ] then moved to Missouri, Arkansas and points farther south including Louisiana. We don't know what these prehistoric people who made this Native American pre-Columbian Indian fine art looked like as no skeletal remains accept been found. They may have looked similar the Aleuts of the Aleutian Islands stretching between Asia and Alaska. Some quite possibly had Caucasian features inherited by the Solutrians of France.
27. Running Gray Wolf 
Canis dirus
Tail pointed down and back, this pre-Columbian artifact appears to be a timber wolf on the chase. The head rock on this figurine makes a convincing canine from all sides. The body rock from the viewers� side gives the illusion its limbs are in motion. It'south quite possible this effigy represents the formidable only now extinct Dire Wolf, which according to some accounts, went extinct about 12,000 ya and had shorter legs than modernistic wolves just much larger bodies. Sienna and grey jasper colored by ancient-life carbon, 2 parts. 5.0�h; 1115 gm $2700
In summer months the Missouri/Arkansas people would migrate north into this area by pes to hunt deer and elk. [ 12 ] At that place is as well bear witness that a few mammoth may take withal been effectually. [ thirteen ] In autumn they would migrated back to their southern home. These nomadic tribes consist of small-scale family groups - more like clans than tribes - who followed the rivers. They returned each spring to their "Happy Hunting Footing" that was settled by their ancestors who possibly showtime came downwardly from the Bully North.
Anaticula amethystus
This rare crystalline amethyst duck has rock vein patterns resembling wings on the dorsum of the bird and it is not completely certain if they were worked. It is however, quite beautiful when wetted in full sunlight. The body stone was institute in the bound of 2002. The head was recovered from the aforementioned site in the spring of 2005. To the ancient Native American Indian, animals that could travel between the bones elements i.e. water to air (ducks and geese), were special creatures and considered sacred. Knowing that, it is little wonder this figurine was nerveless from the river by Ice Age Indian. Caput and body are amethyst metaquartzite. 2 parts. 3.5"H; 394 gm $3100
By about xi,000 BP conifer forests became mixed with deciduous copse peppered by high grasslands and depression, reedy river bottoms:
In the earliest Holocene, the conifers� spruce, fir, and larch�disappeared, and a deciduous forest dominated by black ash, elm (Ulmus), and oak prevailed. Other deciduous copse also occurred, including sugar maple, basswood, ironwood, hickory, and walnut (Juglans). The abundance of elm and ash, trees that favor wet soils, implies a very wet climate.[ 5 ]
One-time after eleven,700 BP the notwithstanding nomadic Early Archaic Indians began returning to the same Illinois river valleys each spring - not but to hunt - but to stay and fish. Why? We believe 2 remarkable events happened that narrows the age of this ancient Native American pre-Columbian Indian art.
26. Wounded Stag
Megaloceros giganteus
This pre-Columbian figurine with its 8 original pieces assembles in both the horizontal and vertical planes. Like about all the other figurines, these pieces were recovered together. This stag may be representative of the extinct Irish Elk which survived to about 7,000 ya. Ice Historic period deer and elk stood 7 feet alpine at the shoulders. Nevertheless, these stones accommodate to make a disquieting view of the chase: This buck is down and waiting for the inevitable while the Paleo Indian hunter approaches. Every bit dark as this may seem to some, this moment is the hunter�due south large advantage for his efforts: The buck will feed the clan for days and win him respect among his peers and blessing of the chieftain. The twig "spear" was added by the author. The apartment cerise �blood� stone lays double-tongue-in-groove mode into the recess just below a hole for the spear chipped out by the ancient artisan. Chocolate jasper westward alkali patina, and shiny ruby jasper bloodstone (selected past the ancient artisan to fit perfectly ) and rare, dark-green chalcedony (chrysoprase) antlers (with natural white coating) equally if he had mossy antlers, 8 parts ; horizontal and vertical . 6.0"50; 784 gm $5100
Start, a subtle shift in projectile indicate style marks a change in climate and a new phase in Native American Indian civilization. Sometime afterwards xiv,000 BP large Clovis spear points were gradually replaced by the smaller sprint points of the new and shorter atlatl spears. The atlatl used a throwing stick to increase range and improve accuracy. [ 14 ] (Though many contend that bow-and-pointer technology began nearly then.) Accuracy was important considering these people had to adapt to the warming climate with the influx of smaller game species. Second, Archaic Indian became mobile with the invention of the canoe. It is non certain just when the canoe appeared in Native American history, but it was likely a log dugout type. (We know later Native American Indians burned and scraped out their log canoes.) We've found many mitt axes and wedges suggesting canoe building. The 2d-largest percentage of pre-Columbian artifacts we find are distinctly from the Early Archaic. We believe canoe building marks the middle of the Early Archaic Period 9,500 years ago. The third-largest percentage of artifacts we've found however, are more primitive than these Early Archaic artifacts and may even be pre-Clovis - before Paleo-Indian developed the skills to chip out the Clovis betoken. This leads u.s.a. to believe that these ancient Pre-Columbian Native American Indian art antiquities might exist older than 13,500 years! Finally, the largest percentage of pre-Colombian artifacts found in the upper Spoon River valley are from the Eye Woodland Indian Menses.
| Northward AMERICAN CULTURAL TIMELINE | ||
| PERIOD YEARS Ago* Technology / Lodge | ||
| Ice-Age Indian | fifty,000 - 16,000 | Stone spear point; flaked scraper, uniface bract |
| Early Paleo-Indian | - | Weapon, tool and spousal merchandise; small hunting parties |
| Clovis Culture | 16,000 - fourteen,000 | Clovis point; bifacial blade |
| Middle Paleo-Indian | - | Likely group produce gathering |
| Dalton Culture | 14,000 - thirteen,600 | Dalton betoken; serrated bract; drill |
| Folsom Civilization | 13,600 - 13,400 | Folsom signal with articulated fluted base |
| San Patrice Culture | thirteen,400 - 13,200 | San Patrice notched point |
| Late Paleo-Indian | - | Large hunting parties |
| Plano Civilization | 13,200 - 12,900 | Rectangular bract; suicide herding |
| Younger Dryas Consequence | 12,900 - 11,600 | (Mini Ice-Age) survival employments or repopulation |
| Early Archaic | 11,6 00 � 8,000 | A tlatl ; crescent pocketknife; yurt ; canoe; spear fishing ; burying |
| Heart Archaic | viii,000 � v,500 | Articulated points; w oodworking; fish trap; jewelry |
| Late Archaic | 5,500 � 2,500 | Copper; chaplet; fishhooks |
| Early Woodland | 2,five 00 � two,200 | Pottery/ceramic art; Wig Wam; squash cultivation |
| Middle Woodland | ii,200 � i,800 | N et angling; k asks; carved figurines |
| Belatedly Woodland | 1,800 � 1,250 | Bow & pointer; social club; small mounds; trade |
| Mississippian | 1,250 � 550 | Corn tillage; big cities and mounds; extensive trade |
| Proto-Historic | 550 � 350 | Tee-Pee |
| Celebrated | < 350 (A.D. 1650 on�) | Horsemanship; metallic points and blades; firearms |
| * Ages are approximates and some groups likely co-existed Note: This chart is under constant revision! Compiled and copyrighted � Steven & Delores Hampton | ||
Information technology may have been a social argument of status inside the grouping or a means to educate the young, but fifty-fifty a possession such as an figurine can be crushing for any walking human. Nonetheless, the smaller stone figurines and rock crystals would take been no problem floating down the river in a large canoe, and niggling burden paddling them back up.
Aquila chrysaetos It doesn't show it considering of the gleam from the camera flash on the body stone, just the color on these 2 stones lucifer perfectly. This dignified piece resembling an adult golden hawkeye is large - nearly the size of the baby chick in existent life. The is head smoother than the body and so must have been heavily handled. Wear on the "beak" suggests information technology may take been used every bit a pecking stone. For more raptors run across "Thunderbird". Matching honey jasper w sheen patina head. Tool kit: Bone & nut cracker and grinder, 2 parts. 5.three"h; 1651 gm $750 
Effectually 11,500 BP the winters were still harsh in Illinois. And so in fall the pedestrian migrating Early Archaic Indian had to leave heavy items backside (at to the lowest degree the heavy figurine bases). They would stash them on a loma, in a depression out-of-view, or side by side to a landmark where they could exist easily found the following spring - before vegetation became too thick. (Remember, in some parts of the Pleistocene world, rocks of any kind were a rare commodity.) Then these ancient Pre-Columbian Native American Indian antiquities must have been originally nerveless from the river sometime after the first big thaw and flood of the Wisconsinan ice canvass around xv,000 BP only before 11,500 BP - before the invention of the canoe - and when mammoth nonetheless roamed North America.
Dating the Art
What Happened to the River Owl Clan? The Illinois Country Museum has catalogued mostly Late Archaic and Woodland points in the northern Spoon River expanse - with just a spattering of Mississippian points. And so at that place seems to be a large time gap in pre-Columbian Native American Indian artifacts from this site betwixt the very Early Archaic and Late Primitive Periods. That'southward over 2,000 years! Why did the association disappear?
To add to the confusion, we institute �war points� (points 1000, Northward and O see Projectile Points from Site 2601 below) without notches so designed to stay in its victim when the shaft is pulled out. In contradiction, older Clovis, Dalton and San Patrice point of the Early Paleo-Indian Period are likewise designed to stay in prey. But many of the points constitute at the site were of the domestic variety - atlatl hunting darts. These points are notched to stay on the shaft when pulled from prey for reuse. [ 15 ] Perhaps the war points were designed by the River Owl. But a peaceful lodge unremarkably sags in weapons applied science. Did a stone-age tribe with higher technology invade the clan? This seems unlikely, as resources were abundant throughout the entire region during this period. Somewhen, population in the region grew and conflicts did break out. These points, as it turned out, are from the Late Woodland Period. So what happened to the River Owl? Did disease take them out? In order to answer that, we first need to determine the age of these pre-Columbian art antiquities.
A naticula viridans
Fifty-fifty the rock version of the avian is cute - particularly when they are little. This was likely a child's' toy and when wetted has a slight blueish tinge. To the ancient Native American Indian, animals that could travel between the basic elements i.east. h2o to air (ducks and geese), were special creatures and considered sacred. Knowing that, it is picayune wonder this figurine was nerveless from the river by Ice Historic period Indian. Green Pennsylvanian Period slate in 2 parts. 4.ane"H; 719 gm $65 SOLD to Ken
First, in that location is no known way to date rock within historic context, either by atomic differentiation of broken surfaces or past radio-carbon dating. So the only present means of dating stone is by its association with projectile points and even that is largely guesswork past the classification of point styles. Since projectile points are much older than our memories, bespeak-typing is a catchy business. Anyone challenge to be an expert - normally isn't. I have found many alien opinions in types. First, technologies of any type, from record playing turntables to ipads, can co-exist. 2nd, variations in styles can occur by an artist all in ane day at the same locale. The all-time we can do is to come up close to classifying a signal. Nearly of my information even so, came from the Illinois State Museum and Lar Hothem's excellent book Indian Artifacts Of The Midwest, Book 5.
Megaloceros giganteus
Every Hunter�s dream � a ruminating stag. To many early tribes of humans capturing the image of your prey was the offset stride to capturing the prey itself � and thus a real Venus mate. Even so, early on Indians sincerely respected the animals he hunted and fished. They sustained his family and a large prize such as bull elk would insure wealth and condition within the clan. This is especially true considering at the end of the last Ice Age, deer and elk stood 7 anxiety alpine at the shoulders. Like near all the other figurines, these stones were found together. The Elk�southward correct center was worked around the socket and the caput was slightly chipped underneath to seat on the trunk stone. It may have even held an "eye stone" of some sort. Annotation polished patina on caput and body; this pre-Columbian figurine was routinely handled or rubbed, maybe even in animal fat or blood . Lite cocoa jasper west Os-colored chalcedony antlers, 3 parts. 5.5�h; 538 gm $4700
Atlatl point 50 (see next illustration below) has on it what appears to be specks of black pitch on its far side and if this is the instance, it tin can exist accurately dated to within 200 years. But since I don�t accept admission to carbon dating (the sample may be too tiny to carbon engagement anyway) the actual age of this pre-Colombian Indian art was difficult to determine with certainty. I had to find another way to approximate the age of these antiquities. First, burial depth is the usual means for determining the age of a relic. However, since subcontract basis around here has been repeatedly tumbled, soil layers don�t give us a meaningful time-frame for these relics, so I went online. My research brought up conflicting results, which means that most established sources can just guess the approximate historic period of stone relics from this expanse. So I approached the age trouble from two fronts: � Insights into the life of these people by observing the fine art. � The established ruler of historic period i.eastward. the technology of points. Start, this was undeniably a artistic and uninhibited order every bit the fine art speaks for itself. But, no bear witness for copper smelting or pottery has been establish at this site, suggesting that the art was created before 5,000 BP.
A Stemmed, Late Paleo. B Stemmed, Tardily Paleo. C Un-classified, probably Paleo-Early Archaic Hardin. D Transitional Clovis (fluted) Late Paleo-Early on Archaic. E Hardin, Early Archaic.
F Etley, Paleo-Early Archaic. G Side-Notched, Early Archaic. H Surgical, possibly Early on Archaic. I Hardin, Middle Archaic. J Stemmed, Middle Archaic.
K Kirk, Late Archaic. L Hemphill, Belatedly Archaic. M Waubesa, Early on-Mid Woodland. Northward Waubesa, Middle Woodland.O Stemmed, Middle Woodland.
Notes: Paleo-Indian points D and East prove gradual employment of deeper notching. Betoken G shows more skill in notching by the following of the vein in the rock, just is still classified as Early Archaic. Note the large rust stain "birthmark" from the iron-rich Illinois soil. Point H is believed to exist a surgical bract. Its long tang would facilitate fine command as a scalpel. The tip is plow damaged. Points I - 50 brandish deeper notching which requires more skill to make merely easier to recover subsequently a impale. Smaller modified point J reveals employ of the newer and smaller atlatl. Points M - O from the Middle Woodland menstruum: Pearly white chalcedony Chiliad has a tapered tang and perchance used equally a spear; points N, O also take tapered tangs or "contracting stems" for easy re-loading. Manifestly it was easier to knock out a point then to brand a direct throwing stick.
Second, our archaeological site independent Late Paleo to Early Primitive points when the Plano culture reigned on the western grasslands as referenced by the Illinois Land Museum . [ 16 ] Too run across N American Cultural Timeline.
Anas platyrhynchos
This was one of few pre-Columbian figurines we collected because the stones were cute - before we knew they were art (April 2000). The head of this drake contains a nodule - possibly holding a crinoid caput fossil. To the ancient Native American Indian, animals that could travel between the basic elements i.e. water to air (ducks and geese), were special creatures and considered sacred. Knowing that, information technology is little wonder this figurine was nerveless from the river by Ice Age Indian. Ice blue and white chalcedony, ii parts. iii.0"h; 290 gm $99
Estimated Age
First, there are no set up standards for point dating. Like all technologies, bespeak-making probably overlapped in types and didn't change very rapidly at first. Likewise, the crudeness of a point may be due to inferior materials such every bit low-grade chert or the skill of the aboriginal craftsman.
Eutamias minimus
If this frantic piffling grapheme dashed across your path twelve thousand years ago, you would certainly stop and quietly wait for him to reappear. This dashing fellow is doing only that, dashing. Wide-open eyes, tail over the back, and limbs in a flurry, he scurries for cover. This may have been a child�south toy, though it is larger than the real animal - information technology�s physically the size of a baby tree squirrel. The eye is recessed deep enough to concord a sparkling, smoky quartz crystal recovered nearby. The body stone was glacier-formed w its tail up over its back, which is how these guys sometimes run. Almond jasper due west high sheen and smoky quartz crystal eye, 3 parts. 3.8"h; 851 gm $175
Individual craftsmanship aside, many of our points do not have such deep notching and refined edges, suggesting these points are from the pre Early Archaic. We've found many from the Heart Woodland Period, probably from passing hunting parties. [ 17 ] And then where are the more than recent points of the Mississippian Menses? After 12 years searching, we take constitute few points from the Mississippian. More Chiefly, why is in that location a iii,000 year gap betwixt Middle Woodland and the Early Archaic Periods of N American civilisation at this hilltop site? [ 18 ] Why did the River Owl leave their primo summer campsite?
| Indian Artifacts from Spoon River Site 2601 | |
| Paleo & Archaic Points & Knives | |
| | Late Paleo Indian Riverstone Paw Tools Top left to correct : Hornblende tomahawk; flint mitt ax; blood-red hematite hand ax; flint hand ax. 2nd row: hematite chipper; jasper tomahawk; hornblende drill; razor-precipitous jasper hand ax; flint hand ax. Last row: "Burnt toast" hematite grinding or pounding pestle; flintstone hand ax; gritstone sanding stone (note divot in center); jasper tomahawk. (Annotation wear and chipping on working surface of tools.) |
Since these Native American figurines had to have been pulled from the clear Spoon River shortly afterwards the quaternary and final ice sheet retreated, and some of the points nosotros've found at the site are quite archaic, we were able to come up up with a definitive age for these pre-Columbian fine art antiquities.
Vermiculus
This is near probable a child'south toy. Consider the evolution of mod toys and where they started dorsum in Ye Olden Toy Shoppe'southward of Europe, and the work that was involved even and then. Now consider Paleo Indian'due south effort or only shear luck, in matching upwardly these 2 stones. They both came from a parent rock that consisted of zigzagged layers of jasper giving the problems-eyed caterpillar's trunk that squirmy shape (as seen from above, not pictured here). Olive green and auburn red striated chalcedony, 2 parts. 2.3"h; 133 gm $39 SOLD to Ken
How quondam is this art? These pre-Columbian antiquities had to have been recovered from the Spoon River bed presently later on the last ice sheet retreated sometime after 14,000 BP. In that location is evidence that a comet may accept exploded over Canada but north of the recovery site around 12,900 years ago. The result was a catastrophic alluvion or "Mississippi tsunami" which burst into the Gulf of Mexico and redirected the warmer currents of the Atlantic. This in affect, plunged the Northern Hemisphere back into the deep-freeze for another 1,200 years until 11,700 BP - also known as the Younger Dryas Event.
Anas platyrhynchos
Duck, as it is today, was also most certainly on the menu in the Late Pleistocene, It's quite possible that stone-age children may take even had pet ducks for the long summer at Site 2601. This pre-Columbian female mallard may have been a kid's toy or emblem. To the ancient Native American Indian, animals that could travel betwixt the bones elements i.e. water to air (ducks and geese), were special creatures and considered sacred. Knowing that, information technology is picayune wonder this figurine was collected from the river by Water ice Age Indian. Umber jasper, 2 parts. 3.1�h; 243 gm $425
This would explained the exposed glacier stones in many Illinois riverbeds at about that time. We allowed 200 years as plenty of time to reforest tundra and bottom-up a river with algae and silt. And so unless Paleo Indian was well established in this region earlier 12,900 BP, this stone-age art was probable first complied around 11,500 BP - during the very Early Archaic Period.
Yet, there were xv,000 year one-time artifact tools plant at the Wisconsin mammoth sites and we establish mammoth figurines at site 2601. Since some believe the comet may have wiped out mammoth in this region, these art antiquities could be 13,000 years or older.
Apalone spinifera
This species, at present endangered in Canada, can grow upward to 19 inches in bore - and probably much larger near the end of the last Water ice Age when rivers were clear and gratis of pollutants. To the ancient Native American Indian, animals that could travel betwixt the basic elements i.east. earth to water (such as frogs and turtles) were special creatures and considered sacred. Knowing that, information technology is little wonder this figurine was nerveless from the river by Ice Age Indian. Calorie-free chocolate-brown jasper, nodule body, 7 parts. 6.three"L; 372 gm $1950
Their Demise
How long did the River Owl used this camp? These people must have returned n each bound to sites like ours where their ancestors camped when they beginning came down into the Americas. And they migrated support here for many years. We've plant over a dozen different styles of Early Archaic points suggesting the clan may take kept this summer site for some time. We can only guess how long they returned here. If a manner or technology change occurs every generation, and then the clan visited this site for possibly 200 years - that's 10 generations.
Maybe some of these pre-Columbian figurines would be left continuing, watching over their possessor's yurt plots to be surveyed and inspected upon returning the adjacent spring. Fallen figurines by wild animate being or wind (angry spirits) may accept had a negative meaning. This may explain why the bulk of this fine art was stashed standing, yet subconscious in a depression gulley with piffling runoff and good shelter from prevailing winds.
eighteen. Lazy & Sassy Beaver
Castoriadae canadensis
Some things never change. These stones (found together suggesting they are a set) offering a comic glimpse of married life 12,000 years ago. The stones on the right (Sassy) have heavy lime and sulfur patina either from the soil or deposited by the ancient artisan. To the ancient Native American Indian, animals that could travel betwixt the basic elements i.e. earth to water (such as frogs, turtles and beaver) were special creatures and considered sacred. Knowing that, it is trivial wonder this figurine was collected from the river by Water ice Age Indian. Lazy: Chocolate jasper. Sassy: Cinnamon jasper westward lime/sulfur patina, 6 parts full. ii.8"h; 474 gm $375 ready
What happened to the clan? The most logical scenario is that a long-term drought deterred the clan from returning to this site.
After most 10,000 years ago, the climate became drier, and some limited areas of prairie developed in the Chicago region. This dry menses may have lasted well-nigh 1,000 years... [ 19 ]
If the Spoon River flowed as well shallow for canoe, their yearly routine would exist broken. Or the comet may have caused their demise. Figurines would be left continuing to be buried by the elements. In either case, in a single generation, their summer site would be forever lost to the association of the River Owl.
Summer forth the Spoon River in the late Paleo-Indian period around thirteen,000 years agone. Stones played a pivotal role in everyday life and may take been used like writing to limited complex concepts. In particular, shiny and/or colorful stones were highly prized and traded like fine projectile points. In summer months the clan would campsite along the Spoon to hunt and fish. At site 2601 they left backside a cache of stones that was their art. Graphic courtesy of Dubose Archeology Webquest.
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Endnotes/Bibliography
[one] Four glaciations covered Illinois in the past, the Nebraskan, Kansan, Illinoisan and a small portion of the Wisconsinan. world wide web.geology.about.com [2] America�s Stone Age Explorers, 2004 WGBH Education Foundation [3] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm [iv] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stoneage/clovis.htm [5] http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/410.html [6] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/globe/earthnews/3318932/How-forests-wiped-out-woolly-mammoths.html [7] http://dnr.state.il.u.s.a./lands/landmgt/parks/i&m/CORRIDOR/geo/geo.htm [8] http://www.livescience.com/animals/070521_comet_climate.html [nine] http://www.nola.com/national/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1193981665115410.xml&coll=1 [10] Prehistoric Indians www.caa-archeology.org/~caamicp/eastside/preind.html Native Americans www.museum.country.il.us/muslink/nat_amer/pre/html/primitive.html Encounter the Midwest U.S. sixteen,000 years ago www.museum.country.il.u.s./exhibits/larson/ [11] The silent and powerful atlatl is a stick of wood, antler or os with a hook on 1 end that extends the distance and penetration of a thrown sprint (or small spear) by 2� times. This weapon is so effective; its Paleo prototype is normally held to exist responsible for the extinction of many water ice age fauna species. The Atlatl has been around since 20,000 BP in Europe (and probably longer) and almost 10,000 years in America. It at present enjoys a revived popularity amongst enthusiasts. Likewise encounter www.atlatl.net/commodity.asp?articleid=3 and www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/prehistory/ancienttech/atlatl.html [12] Archaeological History � Indian County Wisconsin www.mpm.edu/wirp/ICW-22.html [13] "At least in the Great Lakes region of North America, where the bulk of his (Dan Fisher, University of Michigan) samples were unearthed, mammoth and mastodon tusks evidence that these animals continued to thrive, despite late Pleistocene climate change." Water ice Baby, Secrets of a Frozen Mammoth, Tom Mueller, National Geographic, May 2009, pg 42. [14] Technically, they are called �Bannerstones�, see man history article The Atlatl Weapon by Grant Keddie, the Royal British Museum Columbia Museum www.rbcm1.rbcm.gov.bc.ca/history/atlatl
[15] The clan used willow to mount tools and weapons as this wood is straight, lightweight and amazingly strong. The author has replicated tools and weapons using willow growing about the recovery site. [16] To encounter their sample points, visit Native Americans: Prehistoric: Archaic www.museum.land.il.united states of america/muslink/nat_amer/pre/htmls/a_weapons.html [17] �Archaeologists believe that the trend toward small stone projectile tips, and the shift from making these points with tapered bases, as opposed to thinner-necked notched bases, is evidence for the replacement of the atlatl by the bow and arrow. This change in bespeak size and style occurred most typically around 1,350 years ago, but some researchers argue that the bow and pointer was introduced earlier in some areas of North America.� Grant Keddie, Curator of Archaeology, Imperial BC Museum www.rbcm1.rbcm.gov.bc.ca/history/atlatl [18] On the 1 hand, one can contend that this does not mean that there is a ii,000-twelvemonth gap in artifacts from this area: Nineteenth and early twentieth century farming was shallow till and may have yielded upward many transitional points that accept long since disappeared into American lodge � traded off on schoolyards and playgrounds for new glass marbles � or sold at some manor auction for a fraction of their existent value. Such activity would have gleaned them from the fields. Yet on the other hand, farmers and their families even but fifty years ago didn�t have the time to actively hunt for points so the odds should permit at least one Mississippian point to surface on newly plowed ground. [xix] http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/410.html
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