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Hacklander Site
History
The Hacklander Site on the south shore of the Kalamazoo River east of Douglas, Michigan, is a large multi-component Middle Woodland archaeological site whose setting supported repeated human use for centuries, likely as a seasonal camp. Evidence shows Late Woodland occupation possibly beginning as early as 600 CE and continuing to about 1000 or 1100 CE, with later, more sporadic use around 1200 to 1300 CE, sometime after 1300, and again roughly between 1760 and 1820. Excavations in 1971 and 1972 uncovered more than 20,000 ceramic potsherds and about 80,000 stone artifacts, making the site crucial to understanding Woodland lifeways in this part of Michigan.
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