question: The Stoner Site is a substantial archaeological site in the far eastern portion of the U.S. state of Illinois, archaeological investigations have shown it to be one of the area's most important archaeological sites for the Allison-Lamotte culture, an archaeological culture that inhabited the Wabash River valley in which country during the later portion of the Woodland period?
answer: United States
context: Title: Riverton Site
  Passage: The Riverton Site is an archaeological site located immediately west of the Wabash River and northeast of Palestine, Illinois.  The site, which dates from the Late Archaic period, is the type site of the Riverton culture.  The Riverton culture, of which only three known sites had been discovered as of 1978, inhabited the central Wabash Valley and had distinct methods of making tools.  The remains at the Riverton site can be separated into two areas: a manufacturing area with pits and a significant number of discarded tools, and a residential area with the clay floors of homes.  The site was first noticed in the 1950s, and Dr. Frank Winters of the Illinois State Museum began excavations at the site in 1961.
  Title: Jumeirah Archaeological Site
  Passage: The Jumeirah Archaeological Site dates back to the Abbasid period, between the 9th and 11th century A.D, today owned and managed by Dubai Culture & Arts Authority.  It was first excavated in 1969 with different ancient items including architectural and decorative findings, ranging from a mosque, caravanserai, and residential houses to glazed pottery jars and plate ware, bronze coins, glass and stone artifacts.This affluent suburb to the south of Dubai city is the location of an important archaeological site dating to the early Islamic period.  Large houses built of beach rock (farush) covered with lime plaster have been excavated at Jumeirah by a team from the Dubai Museum.  Based on a study of the pottery found at the site, Jumeirah seems to date to the first two or three centuries of the Islamic era.  Thus, it is in part contemporary with the sequence at Kush in northern Ras al-Khaimah, and with Jazirat al-Hulaylah.  Jumeirah is, however, the only complete settlement with well-preserved architecture yet excavated from this important period.  A selection of the finds from Jumeirah can be seen in the Dubai Museum.This is one of the most significant archaeological sites in the UAE, but there’s so little left to see that it’s really only of interest to folks with more than a passing interest in the remote past.  With origins in the 6th century AD, the settlement was once a caravan stop on a route linking Iraq and Oman and is interesting in that it spans the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras.  Pottery, tools, coins and other items unearthed here are displayed at Dubai Museum and the Heritage Village . The ancient trade route between Iraq and Northern Oman, Jumeirah was a station for camels and horses along with these routes.  Rich population are found at the suburban region south of Dubai.  Old archaeological remains from 7th to 15th century A.D. where found during the mining in 1968.  These remains where found out to be the existence of houses, stores and souks.  Among these houses one was found to be the Palace of one ruler of that period in this region.  The modern Islamic civilizations during this period are Kush in northern Ras Al-Khaimah, and Jazirat al-Hulaylah.
  Title: Carrier Mills Archaeological District
  Passage: The Carrier Mills Archaeological District is a group of prehistoric archaeological sites located along the Saline River south of Carrier Mills, Illinois.  The sites were inhabited over the period from 2500 B.C. to 700 A.D.  The oldest three sites date from the Late Archaic period, which encompassed the first 1500 years of occupation at the district; these sites include two small campsites and a larger base camp.  Several sites were inhabited during the Early Woodland period, which lasted until 500 B.C.; these sites are distinguished by fragments of pottery, which was developed during this period.  The Early Woodland period sites are likely to have been a part of the Crab Orchard culture, a local subtype of the Hopewell tradition.  A number of sites date from the Middle Woodland Period, which spanned from 300 B.C. to 500 A.D.; these sites appear to have adopted the technology, but not the traditions, of the Hopewell culture.  A single projectile point from the Late Woodland period has also been recovered from the site.
  Title: Duffy Site
  Passage: The Duffy Site is a substantial archaeological site along the Wabash River in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois.  Located near the village of New Haven in Gallatin County, it is the type site for the Duffy Complex, a group of similar sites on the Illinois side of the Wabash near its confluence with the Ohio River.  Duffy is distinctive largely because of its pottery: the site's inhabitants typically produced ceramics of various thicknesses and comparatively few decorative elements, tempered with grog.  What decorations exist are typically limited to one or two rows of simple lines or bars that have been incised or stamped on the side of the piece of pottery.  Projectile points found at the site are small triangular "Mounds Stemless" points, and the inhabitants produced celts of a vaguely rectangular shape.  The site is believed to have been inhabited circa AD 1000.
  Title: Stoner Site
  Passage: The Stoner Site is a substantial archaeological site in the far eastern portion of the U.S. state of Illinois.  Discovered during the Great Depression, the site has produced large numbers of artifacts from a prehistoric village that was once located there, and archaeological investigations have shown it to be one of the area's most important archaeological sites for the Allison-Lamotte culture.  After more than a decade of fruitful research and predictions of potentially rich results from future work, it has been designated a historic site.
  Title: Beam Farm Woodland Archaeological District
  Passage: The Beam Farm Woodland Archaeological District is a group of archaeological sites in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio.  Located at 3983 Stone Road near the village of Sabina in Clinton County, the district is composed of one Native American mound and two other archaeological sites spread out over an area of 2 acre .  Known as the Beam Farm Mound and the Beam Sites 9 and 12 (designated 33-CN-194, 33-CN-195, and 33-CN-208 respectively), the sites that compose the district have yielded artifacts from the Adena culture and the Hopewell tradition, both of which inhabited southwestern Ohio during the Woodland period.  Because both the Adena and the Hopewell lived around the mound, and because both cultures built mounds, the identity of the people who constructed the Beam Farm Mound cannot be established; all that can be known with reasonable certainty is that it was raised during the early or middle portion of the Woodland period, or between 800 BC and AD 500.
  Title: Ennis Archaeological Site
  Passage: The Ennis Site is an important archaeological site in the countryside southwest of Indianapolis in the U.S. state of Indiana.  Located near the town of Ellettsville in Monroe County, the site extends into a portion of Owen County, near the town of Spencer.  As an important archaeological site, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in mid-1985; it was the first Monroe County archaeological site and the only Owen County archaeological site to receive this distinction.
  Title: Golden Eagle-Toppmeyer Site
  Passage: The Golden Eagle-Toppmeyer Site is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located near the confluence of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers in Calhoun County, Illinois.  The site is associated with the Havana Hopewell culture and has two main components: the Golden Eagle earthwork and the Toppmeyer habitation site.  The earthwork, which dates from the Middle Woodland period (150 BC - 450 AD), is the only geometric earthwork from the period in the central Mississippi River valley.  Two mounds are incorporated in the rounded earthwork; one is located at the center, and one is located at a gap which has been called the "entrance" to the earthwork.  The Toppmeyer habitation site, which overlaps the western edge of the earthwork, dates from the Late Woodland period (750 AD).  The overall site was likely a regional transaction center at which extensive trade and cultural exchange among Hopewell people in the Illinois River valley took place.
  Title: Allison-Lamotte culture
  Passage: The Allison-Lamotte culture was an archaeological culture that inhabited the Wabash River valley in the United States during the later portion of the Woodland period.  Flourishing approximately from AD 100 to 600, the culture's sites are common near the modern city of Vincennes, Indiana.  First defined in 1963, the culture was originally described as being divided into two phases — Allison and LaMotte — although some later authors have taught a single unified phase.
  Title: Swan Island Site
  Passage: The Swan Island Site is an archaeological site in Crawford County, Illinois, located north of the point where the Wabash River crosses the Lawrence County line.  The shell midden site, located on a sandstone ridge in the Wabash River flood plain, was inhabited by people of the Riverton culture in the Late Archaic period.  As of 1978, it is one of three known sites associated with the culture, which lived in the central Wabash Valley and had distinct methods of making tools.  Archaeologists first found the site in the 1950s, and Dr. Howard Winters of the Illinois State Museum began excavations there in 1961.
citations: Stoner Site Allison-Lamotte culture