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OHIO ARCHAEOLOGIST VOLUME 35 NO. 4 FALL 1985 Published by THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO The Archaeological Society of Ohio TERM Gordon Hart, 760 N Mam St., Bluffton, Indiana 46/14 EXPIRES O.A.S. OFFICERS David J, Snyder, P O Box 388, Luckey, Ohio 43443 1986 President Don Gehlbach. 3435 Sciotangy Dr., Columbus, Dr Phillip R Shriver, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 Ohio 43221 -Tele: Home 459-0808, Bus 888-3572 Robert Hartei. 1961 Buttermilk Hill. Delaware Ohi, > 1986 Vice President Scott Haskins, 2160 Fitzroy Dr., Apt. A-6, Associate Editor, Maitha P Otto. Ohm Historical Society Columbus. Ohio Columbus, Ohio 43224-Tele: Home 476-4843 Jeft Csrskadden, 960 Eastward Circle. Colony Noi til 1986 Exec. Sect. Martha Otto, 2200 E. Powell Rd„ Westerville, Zanesville. Ohio 43701 Ohio 43081 -Tele: Home 846-7640, Bus 466-1500 Ext 256 1986 Treasurer Donald W. 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Ohio 43968 time Write to business office for prices and availability James L Murphy, University Libraries. 1858 Neil Avenue Mall. Columbus, Ohio 43210 STANDING COMMITTEES SPECIAL COMMITTEES NOMINATING COMMITTEE PROGRAM COMMITTEE PRESERVATION COMMITTEE SOCIETY PHOTOGRAPHER Robert Ci inverse Chairman Maitna Otto. Chairman ji 'it Carskadi len Chairman Sti-ve t ullei Mike Schoenfeld Hi, I) || I ball,'is, ,n Jack Hi " ( Ji ihn Winsch Jeff Brown FLOOR MANAGER'S Wayne' M, II line James Murphy COMMITTEE Bob Hill ,n,, Dana Bake, Joy Ji s Don Casto Chairman MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Edith Campbell AUDITING COMMITTEE Jane Wen inei Chairman SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS Dave United 1 COMMITTEE Dl in I I Stl II (..ban man ihan m Putti ira R ib,'it Whit,i Craig Cn ila Mike, WMS' in R ibi 'it Converse! Chairman Roy Stuart Mik., Schoenfeld K, m Saundei -• Jell Carskai Iden EXHIBITS COMMITTEE Biiiy Hilien Martha Otto COMMITTEE TO STUDY Greg Shipley Scott Haskins BUDGETING Don Cast' i, Co-( haii man Wayne- M< n 11ri< • Fiank Otto Co-Cbaitman Kim EHlS Don Fostei Chairman Billy Hilleil Scotl Haskins RAFFLE COMMITTEE Jim Perry Jim Halm James Greenlee Chris Olenick. Chairman Eugenia Kish Jim Gooding Steve Olenick .i.r,, ,n Greenlee Dawn Wilson Jim Perry Warren Mears Jane Wei, Inei FRAUDULENT ARTIFACTS Doug Hooks Buddy Haney (Joe Redick) COMMITTEE Scott Haskins EDUCATION AND PUBLICITY COMMITTEE TO REVIEW Steve Puttera Steve Fuller, Co-ChaiimaCo n COMMITTEE CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE Doug Hooks Roberl Converse, Co-chairman William King, Chairman D,,n BSPSl Craig Ciola Don Gehlbach. Co-Chairman William Tiell Robert Conversi Jefl f ruth Tom Grubb Dan Rosette Emu? Good James Gooding Jim Hahn Virginia MorelOCk Dorothy Good Martha otto Paul Foul Mark Seeley Lar Hothem TABLE OF CONTENTS President's Page Fish Effigy Pipes 4 Another summer of A.S.O. shows is Three Surface Found Slate Pieces From Tuscarawas County 6 complete but not without leaving an enviable legacy that future summer Classic Hopewell Points 7 meetings will have a hard time surpas The Notched Ovate, A Rare Type Of Bannerstone 8 sing. Our best ever attended summer outing at the Newark, Ohio Mound- Two Slate Pieces From The Tolliver Collection 9 builders State Park attracted a large Some Thoughts On Archaic Bevels 10 variety of exhibits many on display for the first time. The Six River Valley and A Seneca County Fringed Pendant 11 Sycamore Run chapters, co-sponsors, should be commended on doing the leg- Sawn Slate 12 work which produced a superb event 1984 and 1985 Field Find Awards 12 under ideal weather conditions. Award winners were Ed Brison who presented ASO/OHS Archaeologists Work Together To Benefit Ohio Archaeology. 13 an outstanding flint display and John Prehistoric Artifacts And Superstition In Europe 15 Rodgers with an exhibit of personally found stone tools. Both of these in An Interesting Shovel-shaped Pendant 16 dividuals are first time winners and are to be congratulated for their efforts. English Gunflints 17 Late in September we assembled in Hematite Artifacts 18 Tiffin for the second Seneca Arrow Hunters sponsored indoor show. Once A Large Seventeenth Century Historic Contact Interment again this was a "class" event with a full In The Cuyahoga Valley 20 house of exhibits, superior refresh ments (including homemade pies) and A Celt Of Unusual Material 29 great hospitality. Category award win Letters 29 ners were the McVetta brothers Bill and Bob with a fine slate pendant, gorget Comments On Gramly, Richards, and Lehberger 30 and bannerstone display and Jerry Bailey with an extensive collection of Flint Jack 30 flint all personally found since 1982. We A Week To Remember 31 thank all of the exhibitors at the four summer shows, and the meeting spon A Fine Adena Blade 32 sors for their contributions to our success The Williamson Site 32 story and especially "mother nature" for her total support. An Adena Adze 33 With our summer experience in mind let me offer a challenge to all chapters A D-Shaped Granite Bannerstone 33 of the A.S.O. In the coming months we Book Review 34 will have a number of state wide meet ings in Columbus at the Aladdin Shrine Occasional Publications In Northeastern Anthropology 35 Temple. Lets fill every table at these Pre-publication Sale (Charles H. Fairbanks Memorial Issue) 35 meetings with a large number of collec tor found displays just as we did at the summer events. Bring both your field finds and your site material. Your Presi dent will dedicate his special award to the best personally found collection at each of these meetings. Chapter Presi dents, encourage everyone in your group to participate. We can make each of our Columbus meetings a truly mem orable event with a large amount of material from every part of the state. See you in Columbus. D. R. Gehlbach Front Cover Back Cover Hopewell point originally collected in Williams County, Fine granite bell pestle—collection of Mark and Ned Ohio, by Dr. Meuser. Made of Flint Ridge flint, 6% inches Shaw, New Holland, Pickaway County, Ohio. long. Collection of Steve Fuller, Stow, Ohio. 3 Fish Effigy Pipes By Phillip R. Shriver Miami University It was George A. West who observed effigy has a natural shape and pro of this effigy that gives me pause in in 1934 that, "As fish furnished a con nounced incised lines delineating scales, attempting to identify the fish it portrays. siderable portion of the food of the eyes, and mouth. Otherwise, the characteristics fall into American Indian, it is surprising that a The second of West's illustrated fish place for the white sucker, a fish which greater number of Fish Effigy Pipes effigies is shown in Figure 4. A steatite incidentally is found in streams and were not made by the aborigines of the pipe with broken stem, it features a lakes throughout much of eastern North eastern United States and Canada." round bowl with angular shoulders, and America including Ohio, Michigan, and (See West, I: 200.) In a recent article a spatulate handle in the shape of the the rest of the Great Lakes states.