Goodall focus

Goodall focus

The Goodall ocus and some of its major sites
Geographical range	Great Lakes: Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana
Period	Paleo-Indians
Dates	200 BCE to 500 CE
Type site	Ridgeway Site in Hardin County, Ohio.
Major sites	Zimmerman Site,
Preceded by	Paleo-Indians
Followed by	Point Peninsula complex, Saugeen complex, Goodall focus, and Norton Mound group
Defined by	Burials in glacial Kames

The Goodall focus was a Hopewellian culture from the Middle Woodland period peoples that occupied Western Michigan and northern Indiana from around 200 BCE to 500 CE. Extensive trade networks existed at this time, particularly among the many local cultural expressions of the Hopewell communities. The Goodall pattern stretched from the southern tip of Lake Michigan, east across northern Indiana, to the Ohio border, then northward, covering central Michigan, almost reaching to Saginaw Bay on the east and Grand Traverse Bay to the north. The culture is named for the Goodall site in northwest Indiana.^[1]