ARCHAEOLOGIST VOLUME 36 FALL 1986 the Archaeological Society of Ohio
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OHIO ARCHAEOLOGIST VOLUME 36 FALL 1986 The Archaeological Society of Ohio TERM Back Issues EXPIRES O.AS OFFICERS 1988 President Martha Potter Otto, Ohio Historical Society, Publications and back issues ot the Ohio Archaeologist: Columbus, OH 43211 -Tel. 614/466-1500 ex 241, Ohio Flint Types, by Robert N Converse $ 5.00 Home 614/846-7640 Ohio Stone Tools, by Robert N. Converse $ 4 00 Ohio Slate Types, by Robert N Converse $10 00 1988 Vice-President Donald A Casto, 138 Ann Ct , Lancaster, The Glacial Kame Indians, by Robert N Converse $15 00 OH 43130 Tel. 614/653-9477 Back issues —black and white —each $ 4.00 1988 Exec. Sec. Michael W Schoenfeld, 524 Sycamore Dr.. Back issues —four full color plates —each $ 4.00 Pickerington, OH 43147-Tel. 614/837-7088 Back issues of the Ohio Archaeologist printed prior to 1964 1988 Treasurer Stephen J Parker. 1859 Frank Dr., Lancaster, are generally out of print but copies are available from time to OH43130-Tel 614/653-6642 time. Write to business office for prices and availability 1988 Recording Sec. Barbara Motts. 7050 Refugee Rd . Canal Winchester, OH 43110-Tel. 614/837-4862; ASO Chapters Bus 614 898-4116 Black Swamp 1988 Immed. Past Pres. Don Gehlbach. 3435 Sciotangy Dr. President: Kevin Boos, 510 Wilder Ave , Huron. OH 44839 Columbus. OH 43221 -Tel. 614/459-0808; Meeting place: Huntington Bank, Bowling Green, last Tuesday Bus 614/888-3572 of each month 1990 Editor Robert N Converse, 199 Converse Dr., Plain City, Cuyahoga Valley OH 43064-Tel. 614/873-5471 President: Beverly Imhoff. 87 N 4th St.. Rittman, OH 44270 TRUSTEES Meeting place: Summit Lapidary Club, 244 Chestnut Blvd., Cuyahoga Falls, second Thursday of each month 1988 Gary Davis, Box 133, Bainbridge, OH 45612- Tel 614/634-2761 Johnny Appleseed 1988 Ernest Good, 3402 Civic Place. Grove City, OH 43123- President: Lyle Meeker, Rt 1, Tugend Rd.. Butler, OH 44822 Tel 614/875-6156 Meeting place: Kingwood Center. Mansfield, first Wednesday 1988 Alva McGraw, 11 77 Eastern Ave. Chillicothe, OH 45601 - of each month Tel 614/773-4399 Lake County 1988 Frank Otto, 2200 East Powell Rd.. Westerville, OH 43081 President: Bill King, 9735 Ridgeview Trail, Mentor, OH 44060 Tel 614/846-7640 Meeting place: First Presbyterian Church, Willoughby, third Tuesday September through January, April, May, and June 1990 DanaL Baker, 17240 Twp Rd 206. Mt Victory. OH 43340- Tel 513/354-3951 Lower Ohio River Valley Basin 1990 Mike Kish, 39 Parkview Ave.. Westerville, OH 43081 - President: Buddy Haney, Rt 1, Box 256, Kitts Hill. OH 45645 Meeting place: Lawrence County Court House or First National Tel. 614/882-4176 Bank. Ironton, third Tuesday of each month 1990 Stephen Puttera, Jr., 8646 Wyatt Rd . Broadview Hts.. OH Miami Valley 44147-Tel 216-526-6866 President: Jeff Georgiady, 1 10 West Bull Run Drive, Oxford. 1990 John Winsch. M D , 585 Edgemont Rd., Newark, OH 43055 OH 45056 BUSINESS MANAGER Mound City S A (Joe) Redick, 35 West Riverglen Drive, Worthington, OH sas.; Norman McKnight. 13009 SR 104. Ashville. 43085-Tel 614/885-0665 OH 43103 Regional Collaborators Painted Post David W Kuhn, 2642 Shawnee Rd., Portsmouth, Ohio President: Richard Gregory. 15441 Johnson Rd., Lisbon. OH Mark W. Long. Box 467, Wellston. Ohio 44432 Steven Kelley. Seaman. Ohio Scioto Marsh William Tiell, 13435 Lake Ave . Lakewood, Ohio President: Brad Harvey, Box 488. Kenton. OH 43326 James L Murphy, University Libraries, 1858 Neil Avenue Mall, Meeting place: Epworth United Methodist Church. Kenton, Columbus. Ohio 43210 first Sunday of the month, 1 00 p.m Gordon Hart. 760 N Main St . Bluffton. Indiana 46714 David J. Snyder, PO Box 388. Luckey, Ohio 43443 Seneca Arrow Hunters Dr Phillip R Shnver, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 President: Frank Findlay. 2465 Co. Rd 36. Kansas, OH 44814 Robert Harter. 1961 Buttermilk Hill. Delaware. Ohio Meeting place: Central Labor Union Hall. Washington St.. Jeff Carskadden. 960 Eastward Circle, Colony North. Tiffin fourth Sunday of November. January. March, and May. Zanesville, Ohio 43701 1 00 p m All articles, reviews, and comments regarding the Ohio Archaeolo Six Rivers gist should be sent to the Editor Memberships, requests for back President: Sam Speck. 13662 Mishey Rd., Fredencktown. OH issues, changes of address, and other inquiries should be sent to 43019 the Business Manager. Meeting place: State Savings Bank, Shrock Rd and SR 3. Westerville, first Thursday of each month PLEASE NOTIFY THE BUSINESS MANAGER OF ADDRESS Standing Stone CHANGES IMMEDIATELY SINCE, BY POSTAL REGULATIONS, President: Don Casto, 138 Ann Court, Lancaster, OH 43130 SOCIETY MAIL CANNOT BE FORWARDED. Meeting place: State Savings Bank, 1583 East Main St.. Membership and Dues Lancaster, last Thursday of each month, January through October, also early December Annual dues to the Archaeological Society of Ohio are payable on the first of January as follows; Regular membership $12 00; hus Sugar Creek band and wife (one copy of publication) $13.00; Life membership President: Dave Lehberger, 330 34th St.. S.W., Canton, OH $300 00 Subscription to the Ohio Archaeologist, published quar 44706 terly, is included in the membership dues The Archaeological Meeting place: St John United Church of Christ, Bolivar, Society of Ohio is an incorporated non-profit organization fourth Monday of each month, 7:30 p.m. Editor's Page ! Presidents Column In my previous column, I noted several Last fall the Ohio Historical Society Adena, the first mound-building culture. characteristics of "responsible'' col opened it's renovated archaeological Our own Ohio Fort Ancient is also well lectors. There is one other trait that de display area. The new program, much represented as is Intrusive Mound. The serves particular attention. Responsible different from the old one, is to show as displays also portray our own Glacial collectors and amateur archaeologists, many of the pertinent and significant Kame culture with stress on it's Ohio along with professional archaeologists, artifacts as possible. This new policy, origin. The archaic as well as our im must continually be concerned with the with the emphasis on displaying artifacts portant Paleo Indian occupation is also preservation of existing archaeological and not on just the display itself, is a shown both in dioramas and with life sites and the information they contain. welcome one to anyone interested in sized mannikins in natural settings. One simple way of helping preserve Ohio's prehistory. Included with the new The new archaeological displays are sites is by monitoring those in your area, exhibits are a number of dioramas which worth visiting, and the Curator, Martha keeping track of potential construction, were out of fashion when the museum P. Otto, is to be congratulated on an strip mining, or plans for any other type was built. At last a visitor who is rela outstanding effort to refurbish them. of activity that might threaten them. If tively unfamiliar with Ohio's rich pre The archaeological exhibit at the Ohio you learn of such plans, contact either historic Indian heritage can begin to State Museum is now one of the best me directly or the staff of the Ohio His grasp the importance and the unique in the United States. position of Ohio in the eastern United toric Preservation Office (an article out Robert N. Converse lining the OHPO's activities appeared States. No state can claim the opulence Editor of Ohio Hopewell or the origins of in the summer 1986 issue of the Ohio Archaeologist). You can also help pre serve archaeological sites by registering them with the Ohio Historical Society. Preliminary Documentary Forms for Ar chaeological Sites are available through TABLE OF CONTENTS the OHPO. The OHS site files are used only for legitimate research and preser "Sacred Circles" Along The Muskingum: A Preliminary Survey 4 vation projects, and are accessible only through the OHPO or the Curator of The Curse Of Corn 8 Archaeology. The Old Stone Fort Of Adams County 9 You can actively promote preserva tion in your local community. Through Some Further Notes On Chaw Raw Ridge 10 the efforts of some amateur archaeolo gists, a Columbus suburb enacted an Surface Finds By Bob Myers 11 ordinance which specifically safeguards Another Exotic Bannerstone Form 12 archaeological sites within its jurisdic tion. That ordinance successfully pro The Karalus Pictograph 13 tected an Adena mound from attack by Fort Ancient/Mississippian Game Stones 15 a pot hunter; more recently it was in voked to require a developer to donate Two Birdstones From Ohio 17 the mound to the community for a public park rather than building a house upon More Turtle Effigy Pipes 18 it. Join your local historical society and Early Seventeenth Century Glass Trade encourage the group to promote preser Beads From The Upper Ohio Valley 21 vation activities. You can also join the Archaeological Conservancy, a non The Whittlesey People: Algonquian Or Iroquoian? 25 profit, national organization that raises funds to purchase significant archaeo Fluted Points As Knives 26 logical sites that may be endangered A Perspective On Point Pleasant Pottery Pipes 30 now or in the future. More information is available through the Conservancy's Three Jack's Reef Points 32 office at 415 Orchard Drive, Santa Fe, Scioto County Home Site 33 New Mexico 87501. Become familiar with existing state Prehistoric Ceramics From The Scioto County Home Site 35 and federal laws protecting archaeo logical and historic sites on public lands Flat, Flared-head Effigies 37 (I can send you copies if you wish). A Fraudulent Artifacts Display 39 recently-organized task force is de veloping proposals for additional state preservation legislation and forthe funds to implement it. The ASO is represented on the task force by your president.