Spring 2011
KENTUCKY ARCHAEOLOGY
I The Newsletter of the Kentucky Organization of Professional Archaeologists
TABLE OF CONTENTS This issue is the first generated by the co editors and is the first one entirely Editor's Note .... l distributed by email. Members should print out the newsletter if they desire a hard copy. Presidential Corner .... 2 This newsletter and future ones will be available on the KyOPA web page (kyopa Feature Topic .... 3 org.org). Switching to an electronic distribution reduces production and mailing 1 28 h Annual Kentucky Heritage Council costs, saves trees, and still provides a venue Archaeology Conference Abstracts .... 6 to communicate to KyOPA members and helps to enhance the knowledge about Iron Furnace Tour. .. 12 Kentucky archaeology across the state and the world. Recent Research .... 13 As with previous KyOPA newsletters, KyOPA Business Meeting .... 14 KyOPA members are the source from which this newsletter obtains articles, cmTent News & Announcements .... 16 research, book reviews, and artifact illustrations relevant to archaeology in Artifact of Interest .... 18 Kentucky. The coeditors will at times contact members for their submittals to KyOPA Officers & Board Members .... 19 publish in the KyOPA newsletter. Given the ease to email information to this newsletter, please do not wait for our request Editor's Note but rather take our challenge to send us the Bruce L. Manzano and Carl Shields basics about the archaeological work you are doing in Kentucky. This KyOPA Newsletter is the first issue after a two-year gap in publication. It is Members can also research and present smaller than previous issues in part because Kentucky archaeological topics relevant to co-editors Bruce L. Manzano and Carl the state. The researcher should cover the Shields want to get it out immediately. topic's pros and cons. The topics can
Page 1 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology include a certification program for Living Archaeology Weekend is still going professional archaeologists, education strong and a summary of the 2010 event courses for volunteer archaeologists, the provided by Wayna Adams, pointed out that status and future change of state cultural it was a great success. The KYOPA website resource regulations, workable approaches is currently being updated and I hope that to stop archaeological site looting, ways to during my term it will meet the satisfaction increase access to Cultural Resource of our members, as well as others viewing Management gray literature in Kentucky, the site. backlog issues on curation collections, plus We inducted four new members voted into new effective field work approaches. our organization this year. Please welcome Please contact the coeditors about these and Sarah Hope of Cultural Resource Analysts, other topics that you would like to present Inc.; Dr. Kary Stackelbeck of the Kentucky in the KyOPA newsletters. Submit items Heritage Council; Dr. Wes Stoner of the for publication by mail, electronically on a Kentucky Heritage Council; and Mary cd, or by email, with comments about the White of the United States Forest Service software and version in your cover letter. who is also a graduate student at the Photographs need to be JPEG or TIFF files University of Kentucky. at 150 dpi or greater. Additionally, I am very proud to announce The schedule for the next issue is Fall 2011 that we presented Darlene Applegate with a with October 15, 2011 as the submittal Life-Time Achievement Award (Figure 1). deadline. All subsequent KyOPA Darlene is an invaluable member of our newsletters will then resume the set pattern archaeological community and by this from previous issues with the submittal award; KyOPA duly recognizes her efforts deadline as November 15 for Winter and that continually go well beyond the May 15 for Summer issues. We look everyday duties of our profession. forward to your future submittals. Congratulations Darlene!
Presidents Corner Eric J. Schlarb
The 2011 Annual KYOPA Business Meeting took place during another successful KHC Archaeological Conference at Natural Bridge State Resort Park and brings hope that we will continue to follow our mission as a professional organization.
We were very thankful to have a wonderful guest speaker in Rachel Kennedy, who serves as the Executive Director of Figure 1. Dr. Darlene Applegate, photo Preservation Kentucky. Rachel provided from the Western Kentucky University web information about her non-profit site. organization, which is devoted to preserving buildings, structures, and Lastly, I would like to thank everyone who archaeological sites throughout the attended and participated in this year's Commonwealth. Thank You Rachel! meeting and I truly believe that our best
Page2 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology years as a professional organization are still 2011; Smith 1998). Myer is now best ahead of us. Keep plugging! known for his studies titled Two Prehistoric Villages in Middle Tennessee (Myer 1928a) Darlene Applegate's Response and Indian Trails of the Southeast (Myer 1928b) - both published posthumously in Dear friends, the Forty-First and Forty-Second Annual I would like to thank you again for the Reports of the Bureau of American award from KyOPA that I received this Ethnology, respectively. His work, which weekend. What a wonderful surprise! I am he intended to be his magnum opus, Stone so honored and humbled that you selected Age Man in the Middle South (Myer n.d.),, me for this recognition. It means so much was destined to remain largely unknown to me because I have a great deal of respect following his death in 1923 while serving as and regard for you all. a Special Archaeologist for the Bureau of American Ethnology. Within the pages of As Eric was giving his lovely introduction, this rather massive study (in excess of 1,000 I was thinking to myself about all the hand written pages), Myer devoted a number people in the room who might win the of pages to describing the results of his 1917 award: "It might be so-and-so because he explorations along the upper Cumberland does A, B and C ... or it might be so-and-so River beginning in Burnside, (Pulaski because she does X, Y and Z ... etc." I had County) Kentucky, and continuing already thought of a dozen people when I downstream. heard my name called, and I was only partly through the room! So, to be Among the various Kentucky sites recorded recognized when there are many, many by Myer, (including the Rowena site later deserving people is a true honor (and a bit documented by Weinland 1980) during his embarrassing to tell you the truth). Thanks explorations, he described what appears to again for your support. I love working in be a heretofore-unknown rock shelter, which Kentucky, and you are a big reason why. yielded the partially preserved remains of two individuals. While the so-called Regards, Darlene "mummies" from Mammoth and nearby caves in Kentucky (cf. George 1994; Meloy 1968; Meloy and Watson 1969; Neuman 1938; Pond 1937; Wilkins 1820) are well Feature Topic known by archaeologists and the public alike, Myer's early account might be of William Edward Myers's Account interest to both archaeologists and students of Two Lesser Known Partially of spelean history within the state. Myer Preserved Bodies from describes the location for this rock shelter as the "Narrows" or White Cliff in Wayne Southeastern Kentucky County, Kentucky (Figure 2). Donald B. Ball This appears to have been a local place It is unfortunate - but perhaps entirely name and is not recorded in either Field understandable - that archaeologists within ( 1961) or the USGS "Board on Geographic Kentucky have long been unaware of the Names (BGN)" website. As described by contributions to the prehistory of this state Myer (n.d.: Chapter II): made by William Edward Myer (1862- 1923), a native of Carthage, (Smith This noble cliff on the County) Tennessee, and an early student of Cumberland River is about half a the archaeological remains of the upper and mile from the mouth of Forbush central Cumberland River valley (cf. Ball Creek. It has many narrow, almost
Page 3 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology inaccessible, dry ledges, several of direction than the other. This cloth which were used by primitive man wrapping was sufficiently long to as burial places. extend two or three times around the bodies, which were partially mummified. The sinews still adhered to many of the bones. James Higginbotham did not remember finding any artifacts in the grave with the bodies.
Within about thirty inches of this grave was another pile of grape vines with ashes underneath. In a small pile of these ashes, they discovered a cane basket resembling in shape, texture, and appearance an old woven split cane chair bottom made of one fourth inch cane splits. They also Figure 2. Confluence of Faubush found what was probably another (Forbush) Creek and Cumberland River basket. Mr. Higginbotham said it shown on the Mill Springs, KY (1978) 7.5' resembled in shape a man's hat of the USGS Topographic Quadrangle, Red well known Columbia shape, without Circle is one mile in diameter. a band, mashed flat. The material was one-eighth inch cane splits, In 1917, we obtained the uncolored. Nothing was found in following information from Mr. either of the baskets and both were James Higginbotham ("Lower mashed flat. They were probably Jim"). About the year 1870, young flattened originally. With these was a James Higginbotham and his little wooden bowl about three-fourths of brother discovered on one of the an inch thick, and capable of holding almost inaccessible ledges of the about one gallon. Its sides were White Cliff a pile of ashes and about as smooth as the surface of a charcoal under a heap of decayed roughly planed plank. A rude rope grape vines. In exploring these about three-fourths of an inch in ashes, they came upon the top of a diameter and about twenty-five feet stone slab grave, which showed no in length was also found in this heap action of fire. This grave was of of ashes disposed in a neat coil. It the local blue shale and was about consisted of about two simple strands 40 inches by 40 inches by 18 of the inner bark of some tree, inches deep. It contained two adult probably a lynn. With these were bodies in a flexed position, one also found what Mr. Higginbotham apparently smaller than the other. called "some short bones about as Both bodies were wrapped in the large as a lead pencil, and from two covering mentioned below to form inches to three inches long." These one package. The wrapping were probably bone awls. around the bodies was of a coarse woven cloth, resembling in color About six feet from this grave, on and texture coarse, raw, dark, another narrow ledge covered with unbleached linen, with about 12 by similar grape vines and ashes, they 6 meshes to the inch, the meshes found a conch shell cup about twelve being much further apart in one inches long which still retained a
Page 4 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology little of the original pinkish color in height measures 14.6 cm., which the interior. It was inverted and shows the skull to be relatively high. contained nothing. Many years before 1870, two more burials had He further stated: "The tribe to been found on other ledges of this which these remains belong may well bluff of which no particulars were have been the Cherokee." obtainable. Temporally, these remains appear to be The above account was secured related to likely Middle Woodland cave directly from Mr. James burials reported at sites such as Mummy Higginbotham in 1917. He is a (now Indian) Cave in Smith County, reliable man but had made no notes Tennessee (Haywood 1823), a cave along at the time. Forty-seven years had the Caney Fork River in north-central passed and he was relying solely on Tennessee (Miller 1812; see also George his memory in regard to a matter to 1993), and various Copena burial caves which he had attached no great documented in northern Alabama (Walthall importance; therefore, there is 1974; Walthall and DeJarnette 1974). considerable room for error. Although an extended comparison of the similarities of these burials is beyond the These boys carried the finds scope of this brief note, for present purposes home and from time to time gave it is sufficient to observe that the relatively them away to visitors, cutting the elaborate preparations for the interment of woven wrappings into small pieces. these remains are highly suggestive of a yet Mr. Higginbotham found none of not fully appreciated wide-spread, mortuary the relics and has no idea where any ceremonialism associated with status of them can be found. Since Indians individuals during this period (cf. Goad had few wooden bowls before the 1980). advent of the white man, the finding of this specimen has no bearing on References Cited the antiquity of the burial. Ball, Donald B. It may be of interest to those who 2011 William Edward Myer (1862-1923): are losing faith in the efficiency of A Significant Early Tennessee our public officials to learn that the Archaeologist. Newsletter of the History of 1870 county coroner held an inquest Archaeology Interest Group (an affiliate of over these bones, secured the usual the Society for American Archaeology) 1(2; fee therefore, and kept one of the February):2-5 (accessible at: skulls. The author secured the other
Page 5 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology 1994 Mummies, Catacombs, and n.d. Stone Age Man in the Middle Mammoth Cave. George Publishing South. Unpublished manuscript filed as Company, Louisville, Kentucky. NAA MS 2566-a, National Anthropological Goad, Sharon I. Archives, Smithsonian Museums Support 1980 Copena Burial Practices and Social Center, Suitland, Maryland ( edited and Organization. Journal of Alabama annotated transcription in possession of Archaeology 26(2):67-86. Donald B. Ball, Louisville, Kentucky). Haywood, John Neuman, Georg K. 1823 The Natural and Aboriginal 1938 The Human Remains from History of Tennessee, Up to the First Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. American Settlements Therein by the White People in Antiquity 3:339-353. the Year 1768. George Wilson, Nashville Pond, Alonzo W. (reprinted 1959, edited by Mary U. 1937 Lost John of Mummy Ledge. Rothrock, Mc-Cowat-Mercer, Jackson, Natural Hist01y 39(3)176-184. Tennessee; 1973, F. M. Hill-Books Kingsport, Tennessee). ' Smith, Kevin E. Meloy, Harold 1998 William Edward Myer. In The 1968 Mummies of Mammoth Cave. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Micron Publishing Company, Shelbyville, Culture, edited by Carroll Van West, pg. Indiana (reprinted 1977, 2002). 665. Published for the Tennessee Historical Meloy, Harold and Patty Jo Watson Society by Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville. 1969 Human Remains: "Little Alice" of Walthall, John A. Salts Cave and Other Mummies. In The 1974 A Possible Copena Burial Cave in Prehistory of Salts Cave, Kentucky, by Blount County, Alabama. Journal of Patty Jo Watson, pp. 65-69. Reports of Alabama Archaeology 20(1):60-62. Investigations No. 16, Illinois State Walthall, John A., and David L. DeJarnette Museum, Springfield. 1974 Copena Burial Caves. Journal of Miller, Pleasant M. Alabama Archaeology 20(1):1-59. 1812 Account of a Remarkable Weinland, Marcia K. Preservation of Human Bodies, in a Cave 1980 The Rowena Site, Russell County, Abounding with Sulphate of Iron near the Kentucky. Kentucky Archaeological Caney Fork of Cumberland River, in Association Bulletin 16-17: 1-150. Bowling Tennessee [from a letter dated May I, Green, Kentucky. 1811]. Medical Reposit01y 15: 147-149. Wilkins, Charles New York. 1820 An Account of the Exsiccated Body, Myer, William Edward or Mummy, Found in a Cave. American 1928a Two Prehistoric Villages in Middle Antiquarian Society, Archaeologia Tennessee. Forty-First Annual Report of Americana, Transactions, and Collections the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1919- 1:361-364. Worchester, Massachusetts. 1924, pp. 485-614, plates 95-137, figs. 123- 200. US Government Printing Office, Washington (reprinted 1972, Southeastern 28thAnnual Kentucky Indians Antiquities Survey, Nashville). Heritage Council 1928b Indian Trails of the Southeast. Forty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau Archaeology Conference of American Ethnology, 1924-1925, pp. Abstracts 727-857, plates 14-17. US Government March 18-20, 2011 Printing Office, Washington (reprinted Natural Bridge State Park 1971, Blue & Gray Press, Nashville). Abstracts (in order of presentation):
Page 6 Volume 15, No.I (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology Bioarchaeological Investigation of the are implied by one's biological affiliation, Bennett Cemetery (150h176), these differences are not reflected in the Smallhouse, Ohio County, Kentucky skeletal remains or how Euro-Americans Alexandra D. Bybee (Cultural Resource and African-Americans were treated at Analysts, Inc.) death.
The Bennett Cemetery (150h176) was Arch in the Parke: EKU Field School excavated by Cultural Resource Analysts, Investigations of the John White Parkes Inc., in the fall of 2009 for Armstrong Coal Site 15MA494, Richmond Battlefield Park, Company, Inc., in advance of coal mining Madison County, Kentucky activities. The cemetery was recorded William D. Updike, Melissa Maynard, during archaeological surveys of the Margaret McBride, Katharine Pagano, property in 1997 and 2008, and during and Ashley Parker (Department of those investigations, the locations of three Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work, interments were identified, although it was Eastern Kentucky University) considered likely that additional graves were present. Subsequent archaeological During May 2010 Eastern Kentucky excavation revealed that 57 graves were University's Department of Anthropology, present. African American Robert Bennett, Sociology, and Social Work in conjunction who was free prior to the Civil War, with The Battle of Richmond Park purchased the land containing the cemetery conducted an archaeological field school at in 1871, and he and his extended family the John White Parkes Site (l 5Ma494). The resided in the "Bennett Neighborhood" area Parkes Site is an early nineteenth century of Smallhouse until at least the 1930s. domestic site associated with the Snoddy Based on archival data and death and Parkes families, both prominent in early certificates, the Bennett Cemetery was used Madison County history. Archaeological by Robert Bennett's family and neighbors survey and testing resulted in the discovery between the 1870s and 1940s. of intact midden and structural features including the possible location of a slave The Horse Park Cemetery (15Fa315): An quarter, the Parkes House, and an early Early to Mid-nineteenth Century nineteenth century brick clamp. This paper Cemetery in Northern Fayette County will present preliminary results of the David Pollack (Kentucky Archaeological investigations and make recommendations Survey), Peter Killoran (Department of for future research. Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, University of Wisconsin- The McMurray Site (15Fa313): Whitewater), and Kim McBride Archaeological Investigations at an (Kentucky Archaeological Survey) Historic Farmstead Tracey Sandefur, Howard Beverly, David The Horse Park Cemetery was rediscovered McBride, Robert Ball, and Dona in the late fall of 2006 during construction Daugherty (Wilbur Smith and Associates) of a new outdoor arena. This cemetery contains the remains of 34 European In 2009, WSA completed the Phase III Americans and African Americans, who archaeological mitigation of site 15Fa313, are spatially segregated from each other. the McMurray Site. This project was Archival research and temporally completed for the proposed Runway 9-27 at diagnostic artifacts suggest that as early as Blue Grass Airport in Fayette County, 1815 the cemetery was used by the Graves Kentucky. Site 15Fa3 l 3 is an historic family to bury their dead. By the late farmstead located in the Inner Bluegrass 1830s, it was predominantly a slave region of Fayette County and built in the cemetery. Though clear status distinctions 1850s or 1860s. Archaeological deposits
Page 7 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology recovered during the Phase I, Phase II, and The Elkhorn Water Mills was a major grist Phase III investigations date from the early mill located on Elkhorn Creek east of nineteenth century to the 1930s. The Frankfort within the Forks of Elkhorn research at the McMurray site focused on community. The three-story mill was three general topics: site layout, foodways, erected by Alexander Macklin in 1844. and consumption. The spatial layout Initially, it was a traditional water powered changed throughout time, reflecting mill using millstones. Later, turbines broader changes in regional patterns in replaced the water wheel and the mill was ownership and agricultural practices. converted to a "roller mill" using steel Hemp was important for the McMurrays rollers. The mill was destroyed by fire in and the Tuckers until the price dropped April of 1892. Surviving remains include around 1880. Tobacco eventually took the substantial stone dam, segments of the over as the favored cash crop. The faunal mill race, and several foundations. This and archaeobotanical data were somewhat paper describes an archaeological survey of limited, but suggested that the occupants the ruins and summarizes the archival followed the Upland South Pattern. resources. Material culture evidence, primarily ceramics, and archival data indicated that The Redware Pottery of Valentine and the occupants of the McMurray site were William Conrad successful farmers. Anne Bader (Falls of the Ohio Archaeological Society) Investigations of the Family Scholar House Site (15JF767), a Nineteenth From 1803 through 1837, German-born Century Neighborhood in Louisville, Valentine Conrad operated a redware Kentucky pottery in Jeffersontown, Jefferson County, Susan C. Andrews and David W. Schatz Kentucky. A resident of North Carolina in (AMEC Earth & Environmental) the late eighteenth century, he arrived in Kentucky in 1799 and built a large brick In the spring and summer of 2010, AMEC home in Jefferson County that is currently Earth & Environmental conducted the offices of Corn Island Archaeology. The archaeological Phase III Data Recovery on undeveloped portion of the side yard is site 15JF767, a historic neighborhood at the small, but contains a rich intact midden. site of the Downtown Family Scholar Limited annual test excavations since 2008 House Project in Louisville, Kentucky. have revealed abundant waster sherds and The neighborhood was settled at the time of kiln furniture. In addition, structural the Civil War by German Americans. They foundations related to at least two arrived in Louisville with a wave of other outbuildings have been encountered. The immigrants from Central Europe who structures appear to overlay a jumble of profoundly changed the city's demographic fired and glazed bricks that is thought to be landscape and that of the nation. They the site of the kiln. The significance of this were later joined by German Jews, African site is heightened by the distinctive nature of Americans, and other ethnic groups. Their the ceramics manufactured at this early lives reflect Louisville's growth from the operation. In addition to utilitarian redware post-Civil War to the Great Depression. jars, pans, and jugs, which were commonly plain and undecorated, Conrad and his The Elkhorn Water Mills: A 19th Century brother produced table, service, and personal Grist Mill in Franklin County, Kentucky wares in a variety of forms including deep Charles D. Hockensmith (Kentucky plates (pie plates), pitchers, bowls, teacups, Heritage Council-Retired) bottles, platters and chargers, jardinieres, as well as redware smoking pipes. Even more
Page 8 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology intriguing are the stylistic and colorful slip engineering of modern archery tackle, this trailed designs evident on these forms. paper will propose some potential functional Importantly, the recognition of the range of reasons for the observed patterns in forms and colors associated with the triangular projectile point form. Conrad wares have allowed researchers in the area to associate artifacts from nearby Functional Assessment of a Middle-Late and regional sites to the Conrad pottery, Fort Ancient Structure at the Sweet Lick thereby allowing study of consumption and Knob Site (JSESlll) commercial exchange within the area. Steven R. Ahler, Wesley D. Stoner, and Christopher M. Gunn (UK Program for "It's Never Too Late To Discover America," Archaeological Research) Wickliffe Mound Legacies, Fain King Era Frank M. Bodkin (Daniel Boone National Phase III excavations at 15ES 111 recovered Forest) data on the construction and use of a large Middle-Late Fort Ancient structure. The A freely distributed picture poster of the context, size, associated features, Wickliffe Mound "A", 1932 excavation, architectural attributes, and associated and the accompanying text reveals details artifacts (lithic, ceramic, and botanical about the site that have not been well remains) are examined and compared to known or recently reported. Sheep contemporary Fort Ancient structures to originally were used to manage the lawns, determine if the structure at 15ES1 l 1 copied from the practice at the White functioned as a domestic residence or as a House during World War I. The site was special-purpose structure. Though there are designated in 1934 as the A.B.C. King Bird no definitive markers of a specific Refuge by the Kentucky Ornithological nondomestic function, it appears unlikely society to promote nesting and feeding that the structure at 15ES 111 served a purely stations for birds. One of the legacies of the domestic function. Alternative nondomestic Wickliffe excavations is that it served as a functions for this structure are discussed. model for the Chucalissa and Town Creek sites with similar excavations whose The Flat Run Site (15Hr54): An Early developers (Charles Nash and Jaffrey Coe) Middle Fort Ancient Settlement in had both visited Wickliffe as students of Harrison County, Kentucky Fay-Cooper Cole's Chicago field school at C. Martin Raymer (Kentucky the Kincaid Site. Archaeological Survey), Bruce L. Manzano (UK PAR), Greg Maggard (Kentucky An Analysis and Interpretation of Archaeological Survey), and Larry Gray Diachronic Changes of Fine Triangular (Kentucky Archaeological Survey) Projectile Point Morphology within the Mid-Ohio Valley during the Fort Ancient Five concentrations of Fort Ancient Cultural Period, A.D. 1000-1750 ceramics and chipped stone materials, Donald A. Miller (Gray & Pape, Inc.) and surrounding a central area devoid of Woody Sanford (Magnus, Inc.) artifacts, were identified at the Flat Run site (15Hr54). A large feature, consisting of one A number of typologies have demonstrated or more pits, associated with one of the the relationship between changes in Fine concentrations yielded a large quantity of Triangular projectile point morphology and cultural material. In this paper, the ceramic, Fort Ancient temporal trends. While some lithic, botanical, and fauna! remains of the observed changes may be related to recovered from the feature are described. stylistic preferences, little attention has The ceramics are compared and contrasted been paid to function. Using multiple lines with those from the early middle Fort of evidence including current analogs and Ancient Cox Site (15Wd107) and the nearby
Page 9 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology late middle Fort Ancient Florence Site This paper provides an overview of Complex village (15Hr22). The results Mississippian and Fort Ancient interaction support the AMS date obtained. The across Kentucky and describes the contents of the feature have provided Mississippian components at Shippingport important information regarding the (15JF702), a village located at the Falls of lifeways of native occupants of the site and the Ohio near the frontier between could provide insights regarding the Mississippian and Fort Ancient settlements. changes in settlement organization that Across the Ohio Valley, there was little occurred during the early to middle Fort interaction between Mississippian and Fort Ancient transition. Ancient groups until the Madisonville horizon after AD 1400. During the Early Investigating Fort Ancient Madisonville Mississippian, this was true at Shippingport Horizon (A.D. 1400-1750): Settlement and the Falls Area. By the Middle Patterns in Central and Northern Mississippian (ca 1300-1410) period, Kentucky however, the evidence suggests there were Matt Davidson (Department of Fort Ancient people living at Falls Area Anthropology, University of Kentucky) Mississippian settlements like Shippingport side-by-side with Mississippian villagers. This paper uses ArcGIS to explore settlement variability within the Fort Fort Ancient Discoidals: Rolling Around Ancient Madisonville Horizon (A.D. 1400- on Function, Style, and Location 1750) in central and northern Kentucky. V. Camille Westmont (Department of Spanning the prehistoric to proto-historic Anthropology, University of Kentucky) transition, this time period encompasses substantial shifts in intra-regional and This research looked at groundstone extra-regional social and economic discoidals from twelve middle and early late relationships that resulted from indirect Fort Ancient (AD 1200-1550) contexts in interaction with Europeans. Examination Kentucky. Eight types were created based of early Madisonville (A.D. 1400-1550; on degrees of concavity and perforation. A pre-contact) and late Madisonville (A.D. regional comparison by geographic location 1550-1750; post-contact) settlement identified and analyzed morphological, patterns identified variation in the linear decorative, and surface characteristics. This distance of villages to the closest navigable comparison found that discoidals in eastern stream. That late Madisonville settlements Kentucky assemblages are generally were, on average, approximately half the smaller, not pe1forated, and undecorated. distance to a navigable stream than early Discoidals in northern Kentucky Madisonville sites, which represents the assemblages are generally larger and have continuation of a trend initiated during the higher frequencies of perforation and middle to late Fort Ancient transition. This decoration. These findings indicate that paper explores the extent to which the discoidals in both regions were used as identified settlement shifts are tied to gaming stones. The greater variety and environmental and cultural factors. higher frequency of decorated discoidals at northern Kentucky sites, however, suggests The Mississippian/Fort Ancient Frontier that their use as gaming stone is also tied to in Kentucky: The View from Shippingport social identity and stylistic preference. (15JF702), a Mississippian Village at the Falls of the Ohio Archaeological Investigations of the Michael W. French, (AMEC Earth & Massey Springs Earthworks, Warren Environmental) County, Kentucky
Page 10 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology Darlene Applegate (Department of Folk Kit W. Wesler (Department of Studies and Anthropology, Western Geosciences, Mun-ay State University) Kentucky University) Federal requirements for open access to data Massey Springs Earthworks are located on are well on their way to being implemented. a hilltop overlooking Green River. First For example, National Science Foundation recorded in 1850, the site complex became and National Endowment for the Humanities a local landmark associated with Massey grant applications now require a data Springs Hotel and Resort in the late I 800s sharing plan. The requirements and criteria early 1900s. In 2010, Western Kentucky for meeting these plans are still rather vague, University conducted the first professional but will be clarified through practice. The survey and excavations at the site complex. Murray State Archaeology Lab, after Earthworks include a "fort" bounded by opening a document-sharing page in 2009, is two parallel walls, sections of a hilltop preparing a comprehensive relational enclosure, several mounds, and borrow database and interactive interface for its pits. Excavations at the east fort wall laboratory system. This presentation revealed earth and stone construction introduces the prototype of the MSU system, methods and a daub-covered palisade or and discusses some of the issues and screen. The site complex dates to the late constraints involved in developing it. Middle Woodland period, circa AD 500. In the Footsteps of ... On the Verandah: Useful Tools and William E. Sharp (Natural Resource Information for Archaeologists Who Conservation Service) Don't Leave the Office Carl Shields (Kentucky Transportation This paper describes recent VlSlts to Cabinet-Division of Environmental previously recorded site locations in the Analysis) Bluegrass and Green River Management Areas of Kentucky. In the Bluegrass, Early anthropological research was Woodland Period mounds and earthworks concerned with "coming off the verandah" visited include sites in Montgomery County to afford a better understanding of the near the Ricketts Mound and in Garrard cultures of the world than had been County visits to previously recorded sites previously offered by "armchair near the Walker Noe Site. The Green River anthropologists," who wrote of people they Management Area includes field visits to never actually met based on second- and previously recorded sites near Carleston third-hand accounts. In the new digital Annis and Deweese Archaic shell midden era, there are incredible tools available for sites and the Mississippian Annis Mound archaeologists to return to the and village site. Visiting these locations "verandah"-so to speak-and explore provides an opportunity to review settlement aspects of certain types of sites from the patterns and cultural historical comfort of their offices. This paper interpretations in these Management Areas. discusses the use of publicly available data and computer programs (such as air photos, Phase Ill Investigation at the Buffalo Run GIS-data, Google Earth, and Google Site (15BU463) on the Salt River Streetview) to aid and enhance Melinda King Wetzel and Anne Tobbe archaeological research and information. Bader (Corn Island Archaeology LLC)
Digitization and the Murray State The Buffalo Run Site is a multicomponent University Archaeology Program, Part 2 prehistoric site located south of the city of Shepherdsville at the Salt River. The site lies in an agricultural field at the confluence of
Page 11 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology Buffalo Run with the Salt River. The site features. This paper discusses and extends along a long terrace ridge between describes those features. Buffalo Run and the south bank of the Salt River. Excavations were limited to a fairly narrow corridor across the site to allow for Iron Furnace Tour placement of sewer lines. Investigations William E. Sharp within that corridor revealed a modern disturbed plowzone, a small, isolated area On Friday before the KHC conference of truncated intact buried organic midden, began, a planned tour of nearby iron and seventeen prehistoric features. The furnaces occurred (Figure 3). My first features vary, and include extremely large reaction was why I should go on this tour deep stratified pits, shallow oblong basins after all, I have visited iron furnaces before? with large fired limestone rocks, and a In fact, I have even done a bit of burial. Based upon surface artifacts, archaeological crew work at various iron occupation at the site ranged from the furnaces, both in the Forest nearby and at Paleoindian through the Mississippian time the Land Between the Lakes in Western periods. However, the Paleoindian and Kentucky. All that really stands out in my Mississippian time periods were each mind about them is that digging levels, represented by a single artifact. Diagnostic keeping straight wall profiles, and screening artifacts recovered from features and test slag is absolutely MISERABLE. units suggest intensive use of the site from the late Middle through Terminal Archaic Well, the weather was great and I decided periods. Although no ceramics were just to go. I am pleased to report that I recovered, lithic artifacts indicate a learned a lot, enjoyed myself, and I am glad continuance at the site into the Early I went. We visited three furnaces, Estill, Woodland timeframe. A single radiocarbon date recovered from Feature 1 indicates a Middle Archaic occupation contemporary with the KY ANG Site in Louisville.
Forest Fire Taplwnomy: Are you sure, that's a pit feature? Wayna Adams (Daniel Boone National Forest) In 2011, an especially intense fire burned near Nada Tunnel in the Red River Gorge. The 2011 Fish Trap Fire required Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) treatment and monitoring of archaeological sites affected by the fire. Initial surveys to look for damaged sites revealed that the fire was most intense along ridge tops, where leaves and duff had burned completely away. Fire behaviors were evident in charring patterns along cliff lines and on ridge tops. The features noted during this exercise indicated to this researcher that fire caused Cottage, and Fitchburg in two Vans, a features may often mimic cultural Forest Service Jeep Cherokee, and two
Page 12 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology private vehicles driving over narrow, illustrates known and estimated routes of the winding roads with spectacular vistas as three trails with accompanying text that long as we did not go through the guard outlines the history of these trails. (guide) rail and become pa1t of the VISTA! W ayna Adams provided Publication in Review by The information on Estill Furnace and Cottage University Press of Kentucky Furnace, Kim McBride discussed Fitchburg Furnace, while Boedy, Big Frank, and Raitz, Karl and Nancy O'Malley Smooth added their two cents. All of us The Maysville Road: America's First wandered around gawking and wondering Highway in the Trans-Appalachian West. how they moved the stone used to build these things way out here in the middle of Extensive research underpins this travel nowhere and "how-the-heck" did they get guide on what is now Highway 68 between the iron out? KHC provided the drivers and Lexington and Maysville, Kentucky. The van transportation plus liquid refreshments historical development of the road froin (water and soft drinks only, no hard drinks trace to turnpike to modern highway is or beer, darn it!). The weather was great, detailed and a mile-by-mile guide of what the discussions and conversations can be seen (and what is no longer visible) interesting and very informative. The along it is included. The book has many result for me is a much greater appreciation illustrations and contains numerous for the affects of the iron industry on references. Kentucky history. Check out the Millstone (Journal of the Kentucky Old Mill Association) Recent Research Nancy O'Malley The Kentucky Old Mill Association staited in 2001 as a local chapter of the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills. The Map recently published: association publishes two issues of their Kentucky's Frontier Trails: Warrior's journal, The Millstone, each year and hosts Path, Boone's Trace and Wilderness Road an annual outing to a mill-related site. (2008), research, writing, and editing by Articles cover all aspects of milling, from Karl Raitz (Department of Geography, equipment to sites to products and to University of Kentucky) and Nancy practice. Nancy O'Malley is a founding O'Malley (W.S. Webb Museum of board member and frequent contributor. She Anthropology, University of Kentucky); is currently working on an article about two GIS compilation and historic map research mills on Houston Creek in Bourbon County. by Jeff Levy; cartographic compilation and design by Dick Gilbreath; art work and Trotter Gunpowder Mill, 1810-1834 Vol. 1, design by Collie Rulo; other contributors no. 2, pp. 5-10. include Boyd Shearer, Neal 0. Hammon, Mills and the Law Vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 21-28. Steve White and Donna Gilbreath. The Selecting Mill Seats Vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 21-28. map work funded in part by a grant from Ruddle's Mills, Bourbon County Vol. 5, no. the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. 2, pp. 21-30. Bluegrass Craftsman (book review) Vol. 6, This map depicts three important trails that no. 7, pp. 45-46. led into Kentucky. Available in paper form King's Mill, Boyle County Vol. 6, no. 2, in Kentucky State Parks and interactively at pp. 22-25. http://kygeonet.ky.gov/metadataexplorer Mill Notices in the Paris Western Citizen [keyword: frontier trails], the map Vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 39-48.
Page 13 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology Mill Notices in the Paris Western Citizen, Plains Indian beaded garments and items Part 2 Vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 15-20. from the Webb ethnographic collection to Alexander Ogle's Mill in Bourbon County complement an exhibit of depictions of Vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 35-41. Native Americans by Karl Bodmer and George Catlin. This well attended exhibit Membership is available at $10.00 per year. ran from October 11 to December 20, 2009. If you are interested in joining, please send a check for $10 with your name, address, Nancy is currently working with the phone number and email address to Lexington History Museum to install a KOMA, P.O. Box 517, Clay City, Ky. newly refurbished exhibit on Kinkeadtown, 40312. a post-Civil War African American neighborhood in Lexington that was the Recent and current projects focus of extensive archaeological excavations by the University of Kentucky The Transylvania University under O'Malley's superv1s10n. The Archaeological Field School, taught by Dr. scheduled opening of the exhibit is April 15, Chris Begley and Nancy O'Malley, 2011. excavated a house site on the early 19th century Catholic cemetery on East 3rct Street in Lexington, in May 2009. Building KyOPA Annual Business of the house occurred in the 1840s by a widow named Mary Cassell who had been Meeting given permission by the local priest to live Alex Bybee there, with the understanding that heirs March 19, 2011, Kentucky Heritage Council would remove the house after her death. Archaeological Conference She died sometime between 1860 and 1867. Excavations uncovered two privies Financial Statement (Alex Bybee) The and part of the house foundation, along KyOPA checking account balance as of with the recovery of many artifacts. The February 28, 2011, was $6,148.79, with field school added to ongoing research on $3,589.83 of that belonging to Living this early Catholic cemetery and the growth Archaeology Weekend (LAW), and $280.87 of the Catholic segment of Lexington's belonging to the Research Grant Fund population from the late 18th through the (RGF). The KyOPA general fund (total late 19thcentury. minus LAW and RGF) amounts to $2,278.09. Expenses paid out since LAW The field school followed up in 2010 with 2010 consist of RGF at $340.00 to Steve excavations at Colby Tavern, located on Mocas (Cl4 date of the Panther Rock Site), Becknerville Road in Clark County. $139.40 to Synergy Development for Geophysical survey and selective website hosting, $100.00 to sponsor SEAC, archaeological excavation took place to and $5.00 for the monthly checking account investigate archaeological deposits and fee ($1.00 per month). Recent credits features in the rear yard (formerly the front consisted of $4,000.00 for the USFS for yard) of the second tavern building, now an LAW2010. exquisitely restored residence. Before the 2011 business meeting, KyOPA Since the closure of most of the exhibit had 107 members, 71 of which paid dues in space in the William S. Webb Museum of 2010 and 3 of which had lifetime Anthropology in Lafferty Hall, Nancy has memberships. Thirty-three members did not been developing exhibit opportunities in pay dues in 2010. This year's annual other museums. The University of meeting introduced four new KyOPA Kentucky Art Museum recently borrowed applicants. Attending KyOPA members
Page 14 Volume 15, No.I (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology voted on and inducted all four. The new KyOPA Website (Eric Schlarb) members are Sarah Hope of Cultural Eric Schlarb noted that updates continue to Resource Analysts, Inc. (full member); Dr. be made to the website (www.kyopa Kary Stackelbeck of the Kentucky Heritage org.org), and that there will be a directory of Council (full member); Dr. Wes Stoner of KyOPA members. Discussion of the the Kentucky Heritage Council (full KyOPA web link "Find ~n Archy" occurred member); and Mary White of the United with the decision that this aspect of the States Forest Service who is a graduate website would be kept. Michael French student at the University of Kentucky volunteered to be coordinator this web link. (associate member). In addition, discussion of the "Artifact/Site of the Month" occurred resulting that this Membership dues for KyOPA are $15.00 might be better titled as "of Interest," rather per year. Please mail due to Alex Bybee at than "of the Month." The "Artifact of the address below (checks or money orders Interest" will also occur within the KyOPA made out to "KyOPA"). Newsletters (see below). Eric Schlarb and Gwynn Henderson volunteered to work on Alex Bybee this web link. C/0 Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. 151 Walton Avenue Student Poster Session (Kit Wesler) Lexington, Kentucky 40508 Kit Wesler brought up the subject of a Student Poster Session (SPS) for the KHC Preservation Kentucky (Rachel Kennedy) conference. Members suggested that Rachel Kennedy, director of Preservation KyOPA could sponsor this, provide some Kentucky, spoke about her non-profit funding, and include it on the website. The organization, which is devoted to suggestion that KyOPA could set up a fund preserving buildings, structures, and sites similar to the RGF for the student poster across Kentucky. KyOPA members should session met with agreement among look into joining this organization (yearly attending members. This resulted in the membership dues start at $15.00 for encouragement for all members to support students and $25.00 for individuals) via the these funds by sending their donations website: ( designated as either SPS or RGF) to Alex http://www.preservationkentucky.org. Bybee at her address below (checks or money orders made out to "KyOPA"). Living Archaeology Weekend (Wayna Adams) Newsletter (Eric Schlarb) W ayna Adams provided a summary of Eric Schlarb discussed the newsletter and LAW 2010, and indicated that again, this indicated that a common issue of concern event was very successful. The George among KyOPA members is that "we don't Blanchard, Governor of the Absentee Tribe do anything." This brought up the lack of a of Shawnee attended, and there were newsletter over the past few years (the most several Cherokee demonstrators, along with recent issue was in 2009). The none native individuals whose skills communications officer (Bruce L. Manzano) included flint knapping and other indicated that one of the biggest difficulties traditional crafts. Between 600 and 700 in putting together a newsletter is the overall fifth-grade students attended the event on poor response from KyOPA members when Friday. Adams requested that KyOPA requests for submittals are made (i.e., a members get more involved with this newsletter cannot be put together when no annual event. LAW will also hold a one provides material). Carl Shields teacher's workshop on July 11, 2011. volunteered to help Manzano put together Please contact Wayna for additional the newsletter. The KyOPA coeditors plan information on this workshop. to complete two newsletters per year (spring
Page 15 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology and fall). Although some people prefer The target audience for this effort is the paper copies of the newsletter, members Commonwealth of Kentucky. In summer agreed upon the decision to produce and 2010, 2,462 people participated in Madison email the newsletter in digital form (PDF), County's Summer Reading Program. As to keep costs down and be thoughtful about Madison County may be "average" in terms the environment. of population and active summer readers, and with 192 public libraries in Kentucky, KyOPA Award Presentation (Eric Schlarb) potentially many thousands could read the Eric Schlarb presented Dr. Darlene book this coming summer alone. As well, a Applegate with a plaque in honor of her book in the summer reading program must outstanding commitment to Kentucky have multiple copies on the shelf, and this archaeology, including her unending work effort will provide several copies of with Living Archaeology Weekend. Along Creekside for Kentucky's public libraries, with the plaque, Dr. Applegate received a thus offering the opportunity for continued Barnes and Noble gift card and a lifetime public impact well into the future. membership in KyOPA. I mailed the books to libraries in early March, along with a letter of introduction News and Announcements and a reproducible poster/flyer invitation for summer readers to write a 500-word essay for an essay competition. The essay prompt Award Winning Novel is "How has reading Creekside changed Kelli Carmean your thinking about archaeology and the importance of archaeological sites in today's I would like to share the good news of a world?" In addition to other instructions, $2,000 SEAC Public Archaeology grant essay writers should re-read Creekside's entitled "Kentucky Public Libraries, Author's Note to get preservation and Summer Reading Programs, and an archaeological knowledge ideas for their Essay Competition for Creekside: An essay. As an incentive, winners of the adult Archaeological Novel" (Figure 4). and teen contests will each receive a personally dedicated and autographed copy of Creekside, as well as publication of their essay on the SEAC and KAS websites. East Kentucky University contributed $1,300.00, which is the cost above the SEAC grant, as well as mailing costs and envelop stuffing labor. While not funded by these monies, Gwynn Henderson and I will work to create a permanent learning tools web presence for Creekside and promote it to high school teachers as part of an ongoing archaeological reading opportunity.
The essays will be e-mailed or snail-mailed to me, and I will make copies and distribute to the evaluation team (Kelli Carmean, Figure 4. Illustration of cover to Creekside Gwynn Henderson, Wayna Adams, Mary an Archaeological Novel by Kelli White, and Ruthie Maslin, Director, Carmean. Madison County Public Library). Independently, each team member will read and sort the essays into three categories-
Page 16 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology STRONG, AVERAGE, and WEAK Council for West Virginia using an established set of criteria and Archaeology calls for Early standard rubric. Members will also identify Woodland Workshop on June 4, their choices for the top three teen and adult essays. When the team meets, we 2011 will compare our categories and decide on Bob Maslowski the essay winners. We hope to receive at least 100 essays, of which at least half will The Council for West Virginia fit into the STRONG category. Archaeology will hold its spring workshop on Early Woodland, Saturday, Creekside offers general readers an June 4, 2011, in the Admin Building, opportunity to engage with a fictional Room 319, Marshall University South archaeologist in a compelling story, Charleston Campus, 100 Angus E. learning about the joys and challenges of Payton Dr., South Charleston. archaeology in the process. The setting is a Registration will begin on Saturday at pasture beside a creek slated for destruction 8:00 a.m. and presentations will begin at - the place where the new Creekside subdivision will soon stand. That same 8:55 a.m. A block of rooms has been beautiful stretch of land was also, where a reserved for Friday night, June 3, 2011, family who crossed Cumberland Gap built at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, 400 Second their log cabin home, living and dying A venue, South Charleston, West beside that same creek for three Virginia (304-744-4641). Room rates generations. As an archaeological crew for the conference are $89.00 + tax for a excavates those remains, they find artifacts double. Mention the Council For WV and features that propel the story forward in Archaeology or the WV Archeological interconnecting, alternating chapters Society to get the special rate. May 20, between the present and past life on the 2011 is the cut-off date for reservations. early frontier.
Additionally, Creekside won a Langum The hotel and Marshall University South Charitable Trust Director's Mention for Charleston Campus are located about a 2010: "This is a category for a book or two mile from the South Charleston (Creil) that, while not qualifying for either the Mound, the largest mound in the prize or honorable mention, nevertheless Kanawha Valley. For those interested, caught the Director's eye and ought to be we will conduct a tour of the South mentioned: Kelli Carmean for Creekside: Charleston mounds after the workshop. An Archeological Novel (University of Alabama Press). An interesting story of a http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safad multi-generational pioneer family farm in &oe=UTF- Eastern Kentucky is combined with a 8&ie-UTF8&q-ramada+inn+south+charlest fictional account of a modern archeological on+wv&fb= I &gl=us&hq=ramada+inn&hne dig at that same location. The two stories ar=South+Charleston,+ WV &cid=O,O,15353 obviously have many points of contact. 096361579201075&z=l6 Although well-written and worthy of attention on its own merits, this book Registration: $10, members; $15, non deserves mention primarily as one of the members; $5, students. very few, perhaps the only, historical fictions informed by archeology." - David Checks should be made out to Council J. Langum, Sr. From: for WV Archaeology and mailed to: http://www.Jangumtrust.org/pastwin.html
~age 17 Volume 15, No.1 (Spring 2011), Kentucky Archaeology Bob Maslowski 2:00 Meet at South Charleston Mound PO Box 213 for Mound tour Milton, WV 25541 Federal Register Requesting Program Comments 8:00 - 8:55 Registration/Coffee Noted by Susan Neumeyer
8:55-9:00 Welcome and Introductory In the April 29, 2011, Federal Register, the Comments National Park Service is seeking comments about the application process for ARP A 9:00-9:30 Steve Mocas permits. This is the second request for Early Woodland of the Falls of the comments. They received none after the Ohio Region first call, which ended on January 25, 2011. Here is the link, if you are interested 9:30-10:00 Mark A. Mcconaughy to submit comments: The Early Woodland Period of http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2011/pdf/201l Southwestern Pennsylvania and the -10459.pdf West Virginia Panhandle: Is Big Really Better? Frank Bodkin revised his poster on the excavation history of the Wickliffe 10:00- 10:30 Jarrod Burks The Mounds. The poster is a smaller size than McCoy Mound in South Central the previous one and loads quickly on the Ohio-Results of the 1960s internet. The poster is now on the web and Excavations the public can link to it from the first page of the Wickliffe Mounds web site. See 10:30 -10:45 Break Excavation History to download a poster on the excavation history of Wickliffe Mounds. (Adobe PDF) Poster© 2009 Frank 10:45-11:15 Matthew P. Purtill and M. Bodkin. Jeremy A. Norr
"Adena" Paired-Post Ceremonial Call for Papers on Civil War Features in the Middle Ohio Valley: An Archaeology Example from the Greenly Site #1 Kit W. Wesler (33AD121), Adams County, Ohio The online Journal of Kentucky Archaeology seeks archaeological articles on 11: 15-11 :45 Sean M. Rafferty topics dealing with the Civil War relevant to Are there Adena "Culture Areas"? the state. The Journal will publish selected articles to commemorate the 150 year 11:45-12: 15 Mark F. Seeman Sesquicentennial Anniversary of the Civil Cotiga Mound and the Interpretation of War. The online publication will occur Adena Interaction sometime during the next four years to correlate with the length of conflict. 12: 15-12:45 Berle Clay Interested authors should contact Kit W. Discussant Wesler, Corresponding Editor of the Journal of Kentucky Archaeology, [email protected]. 12:45-2:00 Lunch
Page 18 Volume 15, No.1 (Sp1ing 2011), Kentucky Archaeology noticed such markings on recovered Artifact of Interest archaeological deer bone. Similarly, contact Bruce L. Manzano Manzano with explanations as to the origin for such markings, particularly if such The Artifact of Interest this issue is a left explanations stem from conducting deer astragalus (Figure 5) recovered from experiments burning deer bone marked with Feature 1 at the Flat Rµn Site (15HR54). aboriginal stains or paints that resulted in the The astragalus is a bone that occurs in the production of such patterns. back legs of deer articulating with the calcaneum and other tarsal bones between KyOPA members are encouraged to submit the tibia and metatarsal bones. The their Artifacts of Interest to the newsletter. specimen is burned calcined with yet We know you have them! Artifacts unidentified marks on the ventral articular submitted can be used to seek explanations as with this issue's artifact or to show a rare or never-before-viewed artifact. Please submit artifact photographs as JPEG or TIFF files at 150 dpi or greater with the artifact provenience, relevant questions, and contact information.
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President: Eric Schlarb University of Kentucky Figure 5. View of left deer astragalus Kentucky Archaeology Survey recovered from Feature 1 at the Flat Run 1020A Export St. Site (l 5HR54) with unidentified markings Lexington, KY 40506-9854 shown on the ventral articular surface. Phone: 859-257-1944 ejschl [email protected] surface. The recovery of this specimen occmTed during site test excavations in Vice-President: 2008 by the Kentucky Archaeological Kit W. Wesler Survey and dates to the Middle Fort Murray State University Ancient prehistoric cultural period. C. Murray, KY 42071 Martin Raymer presented preliminary Phone:270-809-3475 results of the excavations in the March kit. [email protected] 2011 Kentucky Heritage Council meeting paper. The abstract and reference for the Secretary-Treasurer: paper occurs within this issue of the Alexandra Bybee KyOPA Newsletter (see page 9). Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. 151 Walton Avenue One purpose of the Artifact of Interest for Lexington, KY 40508 the KyOPA Newsletter is to illustrate a Phone: 859-252-4737 unique artifact and to seek submittals from [email protected] members on ideas or comments concerning the artifact. To this end, members should Board Members: contact coeditor Manzano if they ever Kelli Carmean
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