FLINT: In this paper, any stone that flakes with a conchoidal fracture that was so used by Amerindians to make chipped tools and weapons. FOLSOM POINT: A flint spearhead having the faces of the blade hollowed out by chipping (channeling or fluting) except for a narrow strip paralleling each edge including the tip (see Figure 3, page 11). FOOD-DRAFT ANIMALS: The large mammals (especially the ox) that were domesticated by man and besides providing him with a continuously available supply of meat, served as a beast of burden or to draw a wheeled vehicle, to drag the plough, and as a source of energy to turn the mill. Animals were not generally so used in North America. FOOD-STORERS: Those peoples who by virtue of native ingenuity and some special natural resource in their region were enabled to store up sufficient food supplies to last them for several months. FORMALIZED RELIGION: The forms of prayer, worship, devotion and ritual and the organization of priests, etc. by which plant-raising tribes carry on their assumed relationships with the world of the unknown agents of natural forces. GORGET: (pronounced gor´-jet) A large flat artifact, possibly at times an insigne, of stone, shell, copper or bone worn on the chest. GRAVE GOODS: The jewelry, insignia, weapons or implements of a dead tribesman together with offerings that may have been placed in his grave by friends or relatives, including vessels containing food and water. Also called beigaben, funeral offerings, grave furniture, etc. GRINDING: The process by which a stone, bone, shell or metal artifact was shaped by rubbing with sand and water or against a piece of sandstone (abrader). GRINDING STONE: A large flat or slightly hollowed stone on which seeds, berries, or nuts were crushed or ground by a smaller hand stone (muller or pestle). GUARDIAN SPIRIT: Among primitive peoples, a being from the invisible spirit world who appeared to a person in a dream and was believed to serve the dreamer thereafter as his personal protector. HAMLET: The name used in this paper for local settlements of Archaic and Initial Woodland sites. They probably had populations of less than one hundred persons. HAMMERSTONE: A stone hammer. Any native or modified cobblestone used as a hammer. HATCHET: A ground stone or copper celt head. Tomahawk or hafted hatchet. HOUSEHOLD: A man, his wife, and children, married and unmarried together with slaves and others, if any, who customarily in their culture live under one shelter or roof. INDIRECT PERCUSSION: The use of a punch with a hammer, especially in the chipping of stone. INITIAL PHASE: The earliest pottery-making cultures of Woodland in northern Illinois, archaeologically known as early Woodland.