| Environment | Technology | Settlement | Economy | Society | Health | Religion | Art |
| How-Do-We-Know? | |||||||
| Paleo-Indian | Archaic | Woodland | Mississippian | European Contact |
Although the journals of the early European explorers in the Midwest contain many references and descriptions of Native American villages, very few have been found and documented by archaeologists.
| Paleo-Indian | Archaic | Woodland | Mississippian | European Contact |