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The Pre-Pottery Faulkner Site of Southern Illinois

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Richard S. MacNeish
Richard S. MacNeish*
Affiliation:
Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April, 1947
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As an introduction to the problem of pre-pottery culture in Illinois, it seems best to review briefly discoveries made previous to the excavation at the Faulkner site. The first such manifestation was reported by Langford at the Fisher site. The burials in the gravel deposits, lower level, were noted by him to have been without pottery and of a physical type different than that in pottery-bearing sites. In 1931 it was mentioned that Kelly had unearthed fire basins of considerable geological antiquity at Plum Island. Simpson and Shoenbeck have excavated similar fire basins in a shell mound in Woodford County. Both finds are considered to be earlier than the use of pottery. The Folsom points found in Illinois are also thought to be of considerable age. In a surface survey of the Carbondale area, Moreau Maxwell located sites which produced large flint knives, bannerstones, straight-stemmed points, quantities of flint chips, but no pottery.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , January 1948 , pp. 232 - 243
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1948

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