FESTIVALS: The term applied to the religious ceremonies of plant-raising peoples that relate to planting and the harvesting of crops.
FINAL PHASE: The decadent [Woodland] [culture], archaeologically known as late Woodland, is characteristic of much of Illinois in the interval between the fall of Hopewellian and the rise of [Mississippi].
FLAKER ([DRIFT]): A flint-working tool either used alone with simple pressure or as a punch struck by a [stone] hammer ([indirect percussion]).
FLAKING or CHIPPING: The method of working [flint] into tools and weapons by direct hammer blows, [indirect percussion] or by pressure with a [flaker].
FLEXED: As applied to burials, a skeleton (generally lying on its side) with knees drawn up to or near chest, arms close to side or with hand(s) near head.
FLINT: In this paper, any [stone] that flakes with a [conchoidal fracture] that was so used by Amerindians to make chipped tools and weapons.
FOLSOM POINT: A [flint] spearhead having the faces of the blade hollowed out by chipping (channeling or fluting) except for a narrow strip paralleling each edge including the tip (see [Figure 3], [page 11]).
FOOD-DRAFT ANIMALS: The large mammals (especially the ox) that were domesticated by man and besides providing him with a continuously available supply of meat, served as a beast of burden or to draw a wheeled vehicle, to drag the plough, and as a source of energy to turn the mill. Animals were not generally so used in North America.
FOOD-STORERS: Those peoples who by virtue of native ingenuity and some special natural resource in their region were enabled to store up sufficient food supplies to last them for several months.
FORMALIZED RELIGION: The forms of prayer, worship, devotion and ritual and the organization of priests, etc. by which plant-raising tribes carry on their assumed relationships with the world of the unknown agents of natural forces.