Archaeologist Volume 31 Number 4 Fall 1981
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1 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGIST VOLUME 31 NUMBER 4 FALL 1981 Published by THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO The Archaeological Society of Ohio Robert Harter, 1961 Buttermilk Hill, Delaware, Ohio Officers—terms expire 1982 Associate Editor, Martha P. Otto, President—Frank W. Otto, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio 2200 East Powell Road, Westerville, Ohio Jeff Carskadden. 960 Eastward Circle, Colony North, Vice President —Mike Kish, Zanesville, Ohio 43701 39 Parkview Ave , Westerville, Ohio Executive Secretary—Don Gehlbach, All articles, reviews and comments on the Ohio Archae 3435 Sciotangy Drive, Columbus, Ohio ologist should be sent to the Editor. Memberships, re Treasurer—Scott Haskins, quests for back issues, changes of address, and other 484 Stinchcomb Drive, Columbus, Ohio matter should be sent to the business office. Recording Secretary—Chris Olenick, PLEASE NOTIFY BUSINESS OFFICE IMMEDIATELY 8140 Anne St., S.W , Navarre, Ohio OF ADDRESS CHANGES. BY POSTAL REGULATIONS Trustees SOCIETY MAIL CANNOT BE FORWARDED. Term expires Editorial Office Dana Baker. 17240 Township Road 206, 199 Converse Drive, Plain City, Ohio 43064 Mt. Victory, Ohio 1982 Steve Balazs, 1010 N. Mulbeery St., Business Office Mt. Vernon. Ohio 1982 Summers Redick, 35 West Riverglen Drive, Doug Hooks, 120 Yoha Drive, Worthington, Ohio 43085 Mansfield. Ohio 1982 Membership and Dues Wayne Mortine. Scott Drive, Oxford Heights, Newcomerstown, Ohio 1982 Annual dues to the Archaeological Society of Ohio are Ernest Good, 3402 Civic Place, payable on the first of January as follows: Regular mem Grove City, Ohio 1984 bership $10.00; Husband and wife (one copy of publica Alva McGraw, 11 77 Eastern Ave., tion) $10.50; Contributing $25.00. Funds are used for Chillicothe, Ohio 1984 publishing the Ohio Archaeologist. The Archaeological Donald Casto, 138 Ann Court, Society of Ohio is an incorporated non-profit organization Lancaster, Ohio 1984 and has no paid officers or employees. Jan Sorgenfrei, The Ohio Archaeologist is published quarterly and Pandora, Ohio 1984 subscription is included in the membership dues. Back Issues Regional Collaborators Publications and back issues of the Ohio Archaeologist: David W Kuhn, 2642 Shawnee Rd., Portsmouth, Ohio Ohio Flint Types, by Robert N. Converse $4.00 Charles H Stout, Sr., 91 Redbank Drive, Fairborn, Ohio Ohio Stone Tools, by Robert N. Converse . 3.00 Mark W. Long. Box 467. Wellston, Ohio Ohio Slate Types, by Robert N Converse ... 7.00 Steven Kelley. Seaman. Ohio Back issues—black and white—each 3.00 William Tiell. 13435 Lake Ave.. Lakewood, Ohio Back issues—four full color plates—each 3.00 Robert Jackman, Box 30, Wellsville. Ohio 43968 Back issues of the Ohio Archaeologist printed prior James L. Murphy, 102 Wilbur Ave., to 1964 are generally out of print but copies are available Columbus, Ohio 43215 from time to time Write to business office tor prices and Gordon Hart, 760 N. Main St., Bluffton. Indiana 46714 availability. STANDING COMMITTEES SPECIAL COMMITTEES NOMINATING COMMITTEE PROGRAM COMMITTEE PRESERVATION COMMITTEE Robert N. Converse, Chairman Jack Hooks, Chairman Dana Baker, Chairman Ensil Chadwick Martha Otto, Chairman Jan Sorgenfrei Wayne Mortine William Tiell Charles Stout, Sr. Don Bapst Charles Stout, Sr. Alva McGraw Jan Sorgenfrei Gordon Hart Bert Drennan Mike Kish David Brose John Winsch AUDITING COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Robert Hill, Chairman Charles Stout, Jr. SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS Don Gehlbach Owen Cowan COMMITTEE Jack Hooks Kendall Saunders Robert Converse, Chairman Tom Stropki Lar Hothem EXHIBITS COMMITTEE Jack Lanam Jeff Carskadden Steve Parker Don Casto, Chairman Wayne Mortine Billy Hillen George Morelock Martha Otto Jim Hann Ed Hughes Gordon Hart Steve Olenick Charles Voshall Jane Weidner RAFFLE COMMITTEE Don Gehlbach Chris Olenick, Chairman Jane Weidner Buddy Haney Doug Hooks FRAUDULENT ARTIFACTS COMMITTEE Graig Ciola Scott Haskins Jerry Hagerty Steve Puttera Ernest Good, Chairman Frank Otto Dana Baker EDUCATION AND PUBLICITY Steve Fuller Doug Hooks Mike Kish, Chairman LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE Don Bapst Lar Hothem Alva McGraw, Chairman Ernest Good Dorothy Good Dwight Shipley Jack Hooks Marylyn Harness David Kuhn Martha Otto Gilbert Dilley SOCIETY PHOTOGRAPHER Joy Jones Earl Townsend Len Weidner Robert Hill 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITOR S PAGE Adena Pottery in the Walhonding Valley, In May of next year our Society will again Part II 4 elect a new group of officers and Trustees to guide us for the succeeding two years. As An Arthropod Effigy Pipe From the chairman of the Nominating Committee, it is Richards Site 8 my duty, along with committee members, to Has the ASO Become Big Business? present a slate of candidates for the various Part II 10 offices. We will elect a new President, Vice- A Fossil Bone Collection From Big President, Executive Secretary, and Treasurer Bone Lick, Kentucky 11 and Recording Secretary as well as four new A Bison Beamer From the Madisonville Trustees. The terms of all officers are for a two Site, Hamilton County, Ohio 14 year period while the terms of the Trustees are for four years. Four Trustees are elected Conversation Piece 15 every two years so that we always have four Eva Ceremonial Cache 16 incumbent Trustees. A Rare Unfinished Notched Ovate From In the past several elections our ballots Delaware County 19 have offered no choice of executive officers- Out Of Place Point 19 only the Trustee positions having more than a A Grooved Slate Pendant 20 full slate. In other words, our members have had all officers, except for Trustees, picked Two Additional Examples Of Late for them by the Nominating Committee. This Mississippian Sculpture 21 in itself is not as dictatorial as it may seem Hafted Uniface Scraper 22 since in many elections, the last one included, May Meeting Awards 22 we have had difficulty even filling the slots for Knives 24 a full ballot. After a great deal of talking with many members, officers past and present, Variations Of Upper Mercer Coshocton Trustees and potential candidates, we have Flint 27 come to the conclusion that our Society has Pentagonal Points 29 grown to such a size that a new approach to Unusual Relics From Adams County 30 our election tradition is desired. Enough Variations In Shape And Composition Of people have shown an interest in the problems Some Prehistoric Ohio Pestles 31 the Society has experienced in recent years Radiocarbon Dates From The Brokaw and its future direction that we believe we should present a ballot which offers more than Site 37 one choice for some of our officerships, as The Burial Cave At "Big Rock" 42 well as those of Trustee. This will, for the first Reconstruction, Forensic Analysis Of time, give our members the opportunity to Prehistoric Infant Skeletal Materials. .44 select a leadership of theirchoiceforthe next A Polishing Stone From Trumbull two years. In addition, this will hopefully County, Ohio 50 involve more people in the governing of our Book Review 51 Society, an involvement of new blood which is sorely needed if our Society is to be a growing and viable organization. In fact, even the losing candidates will probably be put to good use since traditionally there are vacant positions to be filled by our new President. It is the hope and desire of the Nominating Committee to offer as many dedicated and qualified people as possible for election as officers and trustees. In this regard, we are making an appeal to everyone who is inter ested in seeing our Society grow and prosper to offer themselves as candidates as officers or Trustees for the coming election. If you Front Cover would like to become more involved, don't Four gorgets of unusual stone from the collection of jack hesitate to let me or members of the Nomi Hooks, Mansfield, Ohio. Top gorget is of a deep red material probably containing large amounts of iron oxide. Second nating Committee or other officers know of gorget is of hematite, an unusual material in gorgets. Third is your availability Robert N Converse of red and black banded slate. Fourth is rare banded slate with green and yellow banding. Editor 3 Adena Pottery in the Walhonding Valley Part II by A.J.Allen Canton, Ohio The many tilled fields located in the were present in most all sherds, occasionally Walhonding River valley have been popular being finely crushed. Other temper material with artifact hunters for upwards of 50 years. included grit, crushed quartz, and mica. Al Unlike early surface hunters who searched though no coil contours were noted in the mainly for stone artifacts, the modern collec sample, the many parallel break lines evident tors realize the importance of the less popular on rim sherds would suggest coil construction. artifacts and will retrieve scrapers, blades, hammerstones and pottery sherds mostly Fayette Thick Type ignored by others. Unlike lithics which are A total of 60 sand tempered sherds of this type virtually immune to ravages of time, pottery were in the sample but were collected from will disintergrate when exposed to weather, various fields. The rim shown in Figure 1 was hence the urgency to retrieve potsherds plow broken and reassembled. It exhibits immediately upon exposure. Large numbers intermittent parallel slashes that may have of potsherds have been collected from plowed been an attempt at incising. Thickness is a fields in this area during the past 10 years, and uniform % inch and the profile drawing recently several collectors submitted their indicates a very straight rim. potsherds for a group comparison and study, Adena Plain resulting in this report. A recurvate rim is shown in Figure 2 while Pottery Sample Figure 3 illustrates a lip design fashioned by Potsherds were collected from several differ molding a clay coil around the top of the rim. ent fields covering a length of nearly 2 miles Figure 4 shows the only severe rim flare in the down river from the village of Walhonding.