On the way down to Kampsville, we stopped at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, IL. There are lots of artifacts on exhibit, as well as the life-size diorama displays titled "Peoples of the Past" that I took pictures of.
A Late Archaic mother and child (8500-600BC) | 
The beginnings of crop cultivation in the Woodland period (50BC-250AD) |
Farming at the outskirts of Cahokia during the Mississippian period (1000-1300AD) | 
An Early Historic couple at their home (1200-1700AD) |
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