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Long before the name "Michigan" was used, the area was home to people today called Palaeo-Indians ("ancient Indians"), from about 14,000 years ago. We know almost nothing about these people, the languages they spoke, the names of their tribes, personal names and the elements of the their religion or even their diet.

This lack of knowledge is simply because there was nobody around to write about them and they had no writing system of their own. All we can know is what is in the archaeological record. They were hunter-gatherers who lived in very small family groups, constantly moving from place to place - exactly as you would imagine a Neolithic people to live.

These people were followed about 4,000 years ago by the Archaic culture (archaic simply means "old"); these people settled in villages and they began to use native copper.

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