The Original Peoples

Lithic Stage (before 8,500 BC)

The  Paleo-Indian Period (10,000 - 8,500)

The Archaic Indian Period,
     Early Archaic (8,500 - 6,000 BC),
     Middle Archaic (6,000 - 3000 BC),
     Late Archaic (3,000 - 1,000 BC) Also known as the "Old Copper Culture"

The Woodland Tradition Indian Period.
     Early Woodland (1,000 - 300 BC)
     Middle Woodland (300 BC - AD 400)
     Late Woodland (AD 400 - 1100)

The Mississippian Period (AD 900 - 1600) Also known as the "Oneota Tradition"

In the 1600s, Europeans arrived in what is now Wisconsin.

Jean Nicolet, - French explorer who came to the Great Lakes Region in the 1600s to promote fur trading with the American Indians.



     The Milwaukee Public Museum's coverage of the pre-European history of Northern Wisconsin

Egan-Bruhy, Kathryn C.: Archaeological investigations at Trout Lake, Vilas County, Wisconsin; Museum Archaeology Program
(State Historical Society of Wisconsin) [Madison, Wis.] : [State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Museum Archaeology Program], [2001]