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An otter effigy pipe from White County, Illinois Photo: Saga Communications/Kenneth Farnsworth via UI News Bureau
The discovery of 2,000-year-old tobacco pipes in western Illinois and in Ohio tells an important story: a story of regional diversity among Indians, says Tom Emerson, retired director of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey.
“This all takes place around the time of Christ, somewhere around 200 B.C. to about 300-400 A.D.,” Emerson said. “These pipes of this style show up spread all over the Midwest with a couple of clusters in Illinois and in Ohio, so one of the issues that we were trying to address was the connection between those two locations.”
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Volunteers dig up history in field near Colona
Tom Loebel and a group of about a dozen volunteers spent Sunday sifting through a Quad Cities field, hoping to find artifacts dating back more than 9,000 years. Author: Josh Lamberty (WQAD) Updated: 11:18 PM CDT May 9, 2021
COLONA, Ill. In a big field near Colona, a group of about a dozen volunteers is searching for small signs of history. It’s a big puzzle, said Kenny Hipskind. And some of the pieces are missing.
Hipskind first found artifacts in the field in 2000, along with his son. He brought some of what he found to an archaeologist.
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