Liverpool Mound (F^o77-II) II. SELF-DOMESTICATION FOOD-STORING WOODLAND (Ceramic) Advanced: 1000 (?)-100 (?) B.C. Crab Orchard Sugar Camp Hill Village (Wm^v1) Baumer Baumer Hamlet (Mx^v30) HUNTING-COLLECTING Initial: 2500-500 B.C. Morton F^o14-II and F^v35 Red Ochre Hilltop Mound (F^o11) Black Sand Liverpool Hamlet and Cemetery (F^v88 and F^o77-I) LITHIC Archaic: 8000-2500 B.C. Terminal Ferry Site (Hn^v251) and Godar Cemetery Medial Modoc II Simple Modoc I Paleo-Indian: 50,000 (?)-8,000 (?) B.C. Folsom Fluted points as isolated finds only. Clovis I. NATURAL MAN PROTO-CULTURAL None found in America INTRODUCTION This paper is primarily planned for the layman, the beginning student of prehistory and others interested in acquiring a general understanding of how primitive man lived during his successive occupations of Illinois and neighboring areas in the more important archaeological periods. Most of the archaeological data for the chief cultures or ways of life are given in references in the accompanying bibliography of technical publications selected as those from which (in the opinion of the writer) the information can be most easily gleaned. The reconstructions given of the cultural features, where not those ordinarily inferred from archaeological findings, are based on a study of the practices commonly found among primitive people now, or until recently, living in the same stage or substage. These are tentative conclusions resulting from a study of fifty tribes in the Self-Domestication (pre-farming) stage and forty in the Plant-Raising substage. Because primitive tribes which are under pressure from people with advanced food-draft-animal agriculture or with machine industry or which are in a transitional condition between two adjacent stages are disorganized or drastically changing a formerly stabilized mode of life, great care has been exercised in drawing general conclusions from their cultural features.