Some Basic Resources, Michigan & Upper Great Lakes

State of Michigan

• History, Arts, and Libraries (Hal) - Michigan.gov
  • Archives of Michigan
  • Michigan Historical Museum - Lansing
  • Michigan Historical Museum System
  • Michigan's Historic Sites Online
  • National Register of Historic Places in Michigan - see also below
  • Office of the State Archaeologist
  • State Historic Preservation Office (SHiPO)
• Michigan History Resources - Michigan State University Libraries
• National Register of Historic Places:  Michigan - see also above
• National Historic Landmarks in Michigan

Growth of Michigan Archaeology

• James B. Griffin (1905-1997) - SAA Bulletin 16(1) Obituary

• In Memorial:  James Bennett Griffin - Photos and recollections

• George Irving Quimby

Museums

• SEE LISTINGS ON STUDENT RESOURCES PAGE

Jobs, Careers, Field Opportunities

• SEE LISTINGS ON STUDENT RESOURCES PAGE

Cultural Resource Management / Contract Archaeology

•  SEE LISTINGS ON STUDENT RESOURCES PAGE

Repatriation / NAGPRA

• SEE LISTINGS ON STUDENT RESOURCES PAGE

Other Organizations

• Canadian Archaeological Association
• Michigan Archaeological Society
  • Michigan Archaeologist
  • Oxbow Archaeologists - Chippewa Nature Center

• Ontario Archaeological Society

  • Archaeology of Ontario - Summary, by period

  • London Chapter

  • Toronto Chapter

• Overview of the Prehistory and Early History of the Southern Canadian Shield Region - by Martin S. Cooper

• Society for American Archaeology - Washington, DC
  • Current Research - periodic updates by region

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Native Peoples of the Upper Great Lakes

• Anishinabek News - North Bay, Ontario

• Citizen Potawatomi Nation - Removed from MI, IN, and WI; currently in Oklahoma

• The Huron - Lee Sulzman, personal Web page

• Introduction to Ojibway Culture and History - K. L. Callahan, personal Web page

• The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, 1610 to 1791 - primary sources (!), in French

• Keweenaw Bay Indian Community - Ojibwa, L'Anse Reservation

• Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe - Minnesota

• Odawa Red Letter - Newsletter For The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians

• The Ojibway Story - History, Culture, Resources, Videos, Links, Pic River

• Ojibwe History - Lee Sulzman, personal Web page

• Prairie Band Potawatomi - Now in Kansas

• Sac and Fox Nation -

• Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan - Mount Pleasant

  • Ziibiwing - Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Cultural Society

• Sandy Lake Band of Ojibwe - Minnesota

• Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians

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Paleo-Indian

Late Pleistocene Glaciation and Lake Levels

• Current Research in the Pleistocene - Center for the Study of the First Americans

• Retreat of Glaciers in the Midwestern U.S., 18,000-8000 Years Ago - Illinois State Museum

• Two Creeks Forest Bed - John R. Hoaglund III, University of Michigan

Paleo-Indian Archaeology

• Barnes Fluted Points - Ontario Archaeological Society, London Chapter

• Barnes Paleo-Indian Site, Midland County - Chippewa Nature Center

• Clovis and Beyond Conference - includes discussions of Gainey and Nobles Pond sites

• The Earliest Americans - by M. J. Shott - Common Ground, National Park Service, 2000

• General References on Great Lakes/Northeastern Paleo-Indian and Early Archaic - Bibliography, University of Western Ontario

• Glacial Lake Levels and Eastern Great Lakes Palaeo-Indians - article in Geoarchaeology (2000)

• Holcombe Beach Site - Macomb County, MI - Michigan Historical Markers

• Holcombe Beach Site - Sterling Heights History, Community Profile - amusing description

• Nobles Pond Paleo-Indian Site - NE Ohio

• Northeastern United States:  Pushing the Frontiers of Knowledge By D. F. Dincauze - 1991 review of Eastern Paleoindian Lithic Resource Use (1989), with a critique of Michigan Paleo-Indian research

• Paleo-Indian Occupation of the White Mtns., New Hampshire - Géographie Physique et Quaternaire (1999) article with frequent comparisons to Gainey and Barnes points of the Upper Great Lakes

• Update:  ... Nuclear Catastrophe in Paleo-Indian Times - Mammoth Trumpet, March 2002

Ontario Paleo-Indians

• Crowfield Site, Ontario - brief description with photos of site, excavation, and artifacts

• Paleo-Indian and Early Archaic Sites in Southwestern Ontario - Chris Ellis

  • Parkhill Site - London Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society

  • An Early Paleo-Indian Site Near Parkhill, Ontario - by C. Ellis and D. B.Deller

  • Thedford II Site

• Prehistory of Ontario - Adams Heritage

• A Question of Time - Peter L. Storck (1996), Royal Ontario Museum, on the Udora Site

• Southern Ontario Projectile Points - London Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society

• First People of Ontario:  The Paleo-Indians - Summary, Ontario Archaeological Society

Kenosha & Door Counties, Wisconsin

• Chronology and Current Research on the Schaefer Mammoth, Kenosha County, Wisconsin - 3rd International Mammoth Conference, 2003
• The Earliest Riparians:  Ancient Wisconsin Lakes Uncovered (Door Co.) - Lake Tides (29:2), 2004
• Geoarchaeological contexts for ... sites with human-modified woolly mammoth remains in SE Wisconsin - Wiley InterScience, 2001
• Mammoth for Dinner:  A tasty debate about early humans in Ice Age Wisconsin - Archaeology (55:4), 2002
• The Mammoth Hunter:  David Wasion's Quest for Pre-Clovis People in North America - The Citizen Scientist 2005
• Mammoth Sites, Wisconsin - First Americans Image Gallery, Center for the Study of the First Americans
• Multiple PaleoIndian Occupations of a Wetland Environment in Door Peninsula... - 2006 Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America
• PaleoIndian-Mammoth Interactions and Late Pleistocene Environments in SE Wisconsin - 2005 Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America
• Pushing Back Time in Wisconsin (Fabry Creek) - Mammoth Trumpet (19:1), 2003
• Woolly Mammoth - Kenosha Public Museum & Archaeological Society
  • Fenske Site - the Fenske mastodon
  • Hebior Site - the Hebior mammoth
  • Mud Lake Site - oldest butchered mammoth in the Americas?
  • Schafer Site

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Archaic Period

• Archaeology of Ontario, Archaic Period - Ontario Archaeology Society

• Glacial Kame Elliptical Gorgets - Robert N. Converse

• Prehistory of Ontario, Archaic Period - Adams Heritage

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Woodland Period

Ontario

• Archaeology of Ontario - Ontario Archaeological Society

  • Early Woodland Period

  • Middle Woodland Period

  • Late Woodland Period

• Ontario Native Prehistory:  Early Woodland Period - Nicholas R. Adams 

• Prehistory of Ontario - Adams Heritage

  • Early Woodland Period

  • Middle Woodland Period

  • Late Woodland

    • Younge Phase

    • Rivière au Vase Phase

  Michigan Hopewell & Middle Woodland

  • The Indian Mounds of Grand Rapids - Calvin College student paper on Norton Mounds

  • PowerPoint Presentation on Norton Mounds - also from Calvin College

  • GVSU 2002 Archaeology Field School - project by Janet Brashler near Norton Mounds

  • The Converse Mounds... - 2001 article by John Halsey in Hopewell Archaeology

  • New Insights on Michigan Hopewell as Seen from the Converse Site - Abstracts, 2002 Midwest Archaeological Conference

  • US 131 S-Curve Realignment Project - Grand Rapids, 1999-2000

  Late Woodland

  • Oneota Bibliographic Data Base Project - State Historical Society of Iowa

   

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Contact/ Early Historic Periods

• Archaeology of Ontario, Contact Period - Ontario Archaeological Society

• Prehistory of Ontario - Adams Heritage
  • Huron
  • Neutral

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