Of Time And The River: 12,000 Years of Human Use of the Illinois River

Of Time and the River
Paleoindians ( 10,000 - 8,000 B.C. )

The Paleoindian population is small. There are about 450 Paleoindian sites in Illinois. This is less than 1% of the approximately 52,000 archaeological sites recorded to date in Illinois. And only one Paleoindian site is identified in the Illinois River floodplain.