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Converse, Chairman Jan Sorgenfrei Ensil Chadwick Martha Otto, Chairman William Tiell Charles Stout, Sr. Wayne Mortine Alva McGraw Don Bapst Charles Stout, Sr. Gordon Hart Bert Drennan Jan Sorgenfrei David Brose John Winsch AUDITING COMMITTEE SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE COMMITTEE Robert Hill, Chairman Charles Stout, Jr. Robert Converse, Chairman Don Gehlbach Owen Cowan Lar Hothem Jack Hooks Kendall Saunders Jeff Carskadden Tom Stropki Wayne Mortine Jack Lanam Martha Otto Steve Parker EXHIBITS COMMITTEE George Morelock Gordon Hart Steve Balazs, Co-Chairman Ed Hughes RAFFLE COMMITTEE Don Gehlbach, Co-Chairman Charles Voshall William Haney, Chairman Billy Hillen Graig Clola John Baldwin Jerry Hagerty Frank Otto Dorothy Good Earl Noble FRAUDULENT ARTIFACTS EDUCATION AND PUBLICITY COMMITTEE Mike Kish, Chairman LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE Jan Sorgenfrei, Chairman Lar Hothem Alva McGraw, Chairman Doug Hooks Dorothy Good Dwight Shipley Don Bapst Marylyn Harness David Kuhn Ernest Good Martha Otto Gilbert Dilley Jack Hooks Joy Jones Earl Townsend 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS PRESIDENTS PAGE The FAI-270 Archaeological Mitigation It is with pleasure that I can report our Project In Illinois 4 January and March meetings were excep­ An Engraved Trapezoidal Pendant From tionally well attended. Excellent and diversified The 33Ha66 Site 8 displays, coupled with interesting programs, Cultural Assessment of The 33-HA-66 provided an atmosphere which ensured that Incised Pendant 10 there was something for everyone, regardless Photographic Techniques for Engraved of specific individual interests. It was im­ Slate Pieces 11 mensely satisfying and encouraging to see so many of our newer members attending The Porteus Mound: Burial or these meetings. New members are the life- Ceremonial? 12 blood of any organization or society and we The Hunt Site (33BL16) Part IV-Bone and should all do our part by encouraging them to Shell Artifacts 14 be active and to participate. My heartfelt thanks A "Killed" Woodland Vessel From a Ross go to those members who made these meet­ County Burial Mound 22 ings so successful. For those members who Surface Finds From the Reeve Site, were not able to attend, it is my hope that you Eastlake Ohio 24 will make plans to attend the Annual May A Rare Spiro Focus Effigy Pipe 26 Meeting to be held on May 25th at the Howard A Human Effigy Pipe 27 Johnson's Motor Lodge, S.R. 161 and 171, Columbus, Ohio. This also promises to be a The Crane Creek Spear 28 great meeting. A Rare Effigy Boatstone 29 The election for a new slate of officers and The Grimm Spear 30 trustees will be held in May. Ballots will be A Recent Discovery—The Anderson mailed to all members. If you are interested Earthwork 31 in serving your Society, please make myself Projectile Points From the Brokaw Site or one of the other current officers aware of (33BL-6) 36 your desire. We also are seeking interested Five Multiple Component Sites in Knox and able people to serve on the various County-(33KN40-44) 43 committees. If you have some ideas which A Human Effigy Pipe from Ohio 47 you think will help to make our Society better, Burin Faceting of Flint Forms in Ohio let us know! I repeat the fact that constructive Hopewell 48 comments and suggestions are always A Fine Ohio Hopewell Pipe 49 welcomed. Some Field Finds from Franklin County . .49 With Spring rapidly approaching, many of A Columbiana County, Ohio, Tar Burner us will be out in the field once again looking Rock 50 over favorite sites and finding new ones. Why not bring your prize finds to the May meeting Surface Finds from Harrison County, and enter them in The Best Field Find awards Indiana 52 program? Through the sharing of your finds The Libben Site, Ottawa County, Ohio... .53 and experiences with other members, the gift Necrology 55 of knowledge will also be shared. Happy hunting! Steve Fuller Front Cover This remarkable sculpture, known as the "Birger Figurine", was found by University of Illinois (Urbana) archaeologists during the 1979 field season of the FAI-270 Archaeological Mitigation Project. The figure is made of Bauxite, weighs 2,699.2 grams, and is approximately 8" high. The FAI-270 Archaeological Mitigation Project in Illinois by Nicholas E. Hakiel, FAI-270 Project 109 S. Main St., Columbia, Illinois Photographs by Jeff Abrams, FAI-270 Project The FAI-270 Archaeological Mitigation FAI-270 Project to look beyond the prime Project1 is involved in the mitigation of over purpose of site mitigation and attempt to use 50 sites which lie within the alignment of an excavation as a means of answering specific extension to Highway 1-270. The right of way questions pertaining to the different time extends over the Mississippi floodplain for periods involved. These questions were some 34 kilometers on the Illinois side of the determined by the dominant aspects of the river, completing the Interstate by-pass of St. cultures encountered. One concern has been Louis. (See lllus. 1.) The project involves four to establish the character and extent of state universities under the direction of the environmental exploitation for each of the Project Coordinator, Professor Charles J. culture periods encountered. For later sites, Bareis of the University of Illinois, Urbana. the nature of community planning has been The University of Illinois is the prime con­ an equally important consideration. tractor for the Illinois Department of Transpor­ The FAI-270 Project is dealing with a time tation, and personnel from the University, span of some five thousand years; the amount under the Project Director Dr. James Porter, of archaeological evidence increases at the are responsible for most of the mitigation later end of the time scale, reflecting the work. Initial survey work on the proposed population density and the level of culture right of way began in the fall of 1975, and site achieved by the Mississippian period. Despite mitigation commenced in 1978. Field work is this, the project has probably made as signifi­ scheduled to be completed in 1980. cant a contribution to the understanding of Although mitigation is restricted to the earlier periods as it has to the Mississippian areas determined by the highway alignment, phase with its more abundant cultural debris. the wealth of archaeological resources in the The number of sites excavated to date has American Bottom enables archaeologists for already radically altered the archaeological the first time to construct a more comprehen­ perception of prehistory in the American sive picture of prehistoric settlement in and Bottom region. around the Cahokia Mound complex. Apart The Archaic period is particularly repre­ from the data retrieved, which contributes to sented at two sites; one of which produced our understanding of the socio-economic three caches of blades, possibly associated base of the Cahokia Mississippian culture, with burial contexts.