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Hunting Artifacts: To find Indian artifacts, try walking freshly plowed farm fields near any water source. Search along river banks, lake shores and in creek beds. Indians lived just about anywhere there was water. Artifacts can be found almost anywhere the ground has been up turned or eroded. Construction sites are good places to look. Especially near a good fresh water source. Also chert or stone outcrops are good places to look, since Indians usually lived near there source of tool materials. Indians made many tools. Tools, such as, axe, celts, awls, drills, adze, needles, spades, chisels, knives, arrowheads, and ornamental items like jewelry too can be found.

Late Paleo Period 15,000+ to 9000 B.P.

Archaic Periods 10,000 to 3000 B.P.

Woodland Period 3000 to 1300 B.P.

Mississippian Period 1300 to 400 B.P.

Historic Period 450 to 170 B.P.