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VOLUME 24 NUMBER 1 Published by the ARCHAEOLOGICAL VOLUME 24 NUMBER 1 Published by THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO The Archaeological Society of Ohio Officers Jeff Carskadden, 2686 Carol Drive, Zanesville, Ohio President-Ed R. Hughes, Claude Britt, Jr., Round Rock Trading Post, Chinle, 1419 Oxford Downs Road, Newark, Ohio 1974 Vice President—Dana Baker, Box 157, Arizona Ray Tanner, 4675 McNeil Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio Mt. Victory, Ohio 1974 Wm. L. Jenkins, 3812 Laurel Lane, Anderson, Indiana Executive Secretary—Jan Sorgenfrei, Leonard H. Brown, Rt. #3, Newcomerstown, Ohio 7625 Maxtown Rd., Westerville, Ohio 1974 Kenneth Goodman, 2528 Swansea Rd., Columbus, Recording Secretary—Dave Mielke, Box 389, Botkins, Ohio 1974 Ohio Mark W. Long, Box 467, Wellston, Ohio Treasurer—John J. Winsch, 6614 Summerdale Dr., Dayton, Ohio 1974 Editor—Robert N. Converse, 199 Converse Dr., Editorial Office and Business Office Plain City, Ohio 1974 Technical Advisor—Dr. Raymond S. Baby, 199 Converse Drive, Plain City, Ohio 43064 The Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio 1974 Membership and Dues Trustees Annual dues to the Archaeological Society of Ohio are Ensil Chadwick, R. D. #3, Mt. Vernon, Ohio 1974 payable on the first of January as follows: Regular mem­ Wayne A. Mortine, Scott Drive, Oxford Hgts., bership $5.00; Husband and wife (one copy of publica­ Newcomerstown, Ohio 1974 tion) $6.00; Sustaining $25.00. Funds are used for pub­ Charles H. Stout, 91 Redbank Drive, 1974 lishing the Ohio Archaeologist. The Archaeological So­ Fairborn, Ohio ciety of Ohio is an incorporated non-profit organization Alva McGraw, R. D. #2, Chillicothe, Ohio 1976 and has no paid officers or employees. William C. Haney, 706 Buckhorn St., The Ohio Archaeologist is published quarterly and Ironton, Ohio 1976 subscription is included in the membership dues. Ernest G. Good, 15 Civic Drive, Grove City, Ohio 1976 Editorial Staff and Publishing Committee Back Issues Editor-Robert N. Converse, 199 Converse Drive, Plain Back issues of the Ohio Archaeologist may be pur­ chased at the following prices: City, Ohio Associate Editor-Martha Potter Otto, The Ohio Historical Ohio Flint Types—$3.50 per copy Society, Columbus, Ohio 43211 Ohio Stone Tools—$2 50 per copy Regional Collaborators- All other back issues—$1.50 per copy Richard Patterson, 519 Front St., Marietta, Ohio Ohio Slate Types—$5.00 per copy David W. Kuhn, 3222 Scioto Trail, Portsmouth, Ohio Make all checks or money orders payable to the Ar­ Charles H. Stout, Sr., 91 Redbank Drive, Fairborn, chaeological Society of Ohio and send to 199 Converse Ohio Drive, Plain City, Ohio 43064. STANDING COMMITTEES PROGRAM COMMITTEE EXHIBITS COMMITTEE EDUCATION & PUBLICITY COMMITTEE Dave Mielke, Chairman Dorothy Good, Chairman Frank Otto, Chairman Kenneth Goodman Mike Kish Ken Black Charles Stout Dr. John Blank Myers Campbell Robert Converse Victor Hiles Marilyn Harness Merle Guthrie Dean Majors Wayne Mortine Kenneth Goodman FRAUDULENT ARTIFACTS COMMITTEE Vivien Marshall NOMINATING COMMITTEE Jeff Carskadden Ernest Good, Co-Chairman Robert Converse, Chairman Robert Converse, Co-Chairman Larry Wilson MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE John Schatz Ken Goodman Summers A. Redick Jack Hooks Don Morrow Frank Otto Dr. John Blank Mike Kish Don Kegg Douglas Hooks Carroll Welling Dr. Orrin Shane AUDITING COMMITTEE Paul Fritch Dick Johnson Donn Buck, Chairman Jan Sorgenfrei Mike Kish Ernest Sutten LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE Ensil Chadwick Marvin King Robert Converse, Chairman Robert Harter Dwight Shipley Robert Cochran Alva McGraw Tom Stropki Gilbert Dilley John Vargo Kenneth Goodman Dr. Raymond S. Baby Dr. Norman Wright EDITORS PAGE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGIST A Note On Flint Chipping A few years ago in a letter from one of our TABLE OF CONTENTS Regional Collaborators (now deceased) the statement was made that one could tell Ar­ An Indiana Turkey Tail Cache 4 chaic points from Adena, Hopewell, and A Pipe From The Eiden Site 5 other later points because they were usually A Radiocarbon Date From The more crude. While there are some crudely made Archaic points, crudeness is an ex­ Reeve Site, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 6 ception rather than the rule. A great deal of A Unique Coshocton County Archaic flint work is unsurpassed in quality Fluted Point 8 of workmanship. Some Archaic types in par­ Fort Ancient Projectile Points From ticular such as the heavy duty points and The Philo Site 10 some of the deep corner notched points have chipping which is almost unbelievably fine Artifacts From The Harter Collection 12 and delicate. Some of these points exhibit Some Fine Flint From The flake scars which appear to run from edge to Douglas Hooks Collection 13 edge of the blade and are no more than 1/8 The Excavation Of Human Skeletal Remains. .14 inch wide. Artifacts From The Seaman Collection 19 Pictured are two Archaic points which in A Reworked Sinuous-Sided Point 20 themselves are not classic specimens but Three Birdstones From The Same which show the technical skill of Archaic flint knappers. These points prove that if he wanted Huron County Farm 21 to, Archaic man could chip flint as well as any Northern Ohio Slate 22 flint worker in the world. The illusion that Artifacts From The Adena-Hopewell flint work is superior often Sandusky River Area 23 comes from the fact that many of the points Prehistoric Sites—Endangered Species? 24 from this period are large and showy and Archaeological Preservation: made of colorful flint. This is not to say that refined pressure flaking techniques were not Now Or Never 26 within the ability of Adena-Hopewell crafts­ Four Large Flint Artifacts 28 men—they just didn't flake flint that way. A Uniface Blade 29 A Union County Dovetail 29 Regional Collaborator News 30 Necrology 31 Sustaining Members 1974 31 A Fine Popeyed Birdstone Back Cover FRONT COVER Carter Cave flint from Carter County Kentucky will be featured on the covers of volume 24 of the Ohio Archaeologist. Pictured is a large stemmed lance­ olate point of the Stringtown type made of this colorful stone. This point was found in Franklin County, Ohio, and measures 5-3/8 inches long and nearly 2 inches in width. It is one of several large points of this type made from Carter Cave flint. Collection of Robert N. Converse, Plain City, Ohio. 3 An Indiana Turkey Tail Cache By James E. Keesling P. O. Box 276, Lynn, Indiana About three years ago, a local man past 80 years dismay it was still too wet to screen well and I old, told me that, as a boy or young man, he had decided to dig a trench about 20 inches wide and hauled gravel from a gravel hill on his father's to fill the first trench as I dug a second one. While farm in Randolph County, Indiana. He remembered digging the first trench, I found three fragments of that they had found Indian burials, but could not gray flint and just below plow line uncovered a say if there were artifacts of any kind with them crushed skull. I think the tractor wheel running in or if anyone had been interested enough to save a furrow had broken the bone and the plow had them. Some months later I talked to a relative of turned up a few of the upper turkeytails in the this gentleman, who now farms the land, and asked cache. The cache was a few inches east of the skull the location of the bank gravel pit. He gave me and the points were all broken. the information and said it had been leveled off I worked until almost dark removing the broken enough so that he was farming the area, but that turkeytails, having decided to wait until later to the field was in grass and would not be plowed finish uncovering the crushed skull and the rest of again for two or three years. the skeleton. The next evening after work I re­ In the spring of 1972, while surface hunting I turned and proceeded to expose the skull and a decided to see if I could find the exact location of few bones (probably lower arm bones) lying at the the gravel pit and walked across some plowed base of the skull. I had high hopes of finding other fields of the adjoining farm. There were some artifacts with the burial, but with little information small rises in one field and erosion from farming available about this culture, I did not know what I and water washing had in small areas exposed might discover. I soon realized I had already found much sand and gravel. There were scattered pieces it all. The remainder of the body had been buried of firecracked rock, but not enough to indicate a somewhere else. From the coloration of the dirt, long-time habitation site. While looking over these the skull and cache had been laid in a pit 24 to 30 sandy hill tops I picked up the notched base of a inches in diameter and 10 to 12 inches deep be­ turkeytail point of Indiana Hornstone. A few feet low present surface level. I think ground hogs as away I found a couple fragments of a different well as farming operations may have disturbed a shade of gray flint. part of the cache, since I have found fragments of the turkeytails several feet from the burial pit. I keep artifacts from different sites numbered and recorded according to where they were found, After determining that the skull was the only and I am certainly glad I had. This spring I was part of the body buried here, I screened the dirt checking to see if the gravel pit area had been of the immediate area to a depth just below the plowed and walked over the area again where the plow zone.
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