VOLUME 22 NUMBER 2 SPRING 1972 Published by THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO The Archaeological Society of Ohio Officers President - Jack Hooks, R. D. 5, Mansfield, Ohio 44903 1972 Vice President — Ed R. Hughes, 121 E. Russell Ave., West Lafayette, Ohio 1972 Executive Secretary — Larry Cronkleton, 1337 Cambrian Ct., Columbus, Ohio 43220 . 1972 Recording Secretary — Dana Baker — Box 157, Mt. Victory, Ohio 43340 1972 Treasurer — Kenneth Goodman, 2528 Swansea Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43221 1972 Editor — Robert N. Converse, 199 Converse Drive, Plain City, Ohio 43064 1974 Technical Advisor — Dr. Raymond S. Baby, The Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio 43210 1972 Trustees Leonard H. Brown, R. D. 3, Newcomerstown, Ohio 43832 1972 Dorothy L. Good, 15 Civic Drive, Grove City, Ohio 43123 1972 Alva McGraw, R. D. 2, Chillicothe, Ohio 45601 1972 Ensil Chadwick, R. D. 3, Mt. Vernon, Ohio 43050 1974 Wayne A. Mortine, Scott Drive, Oxford Hgts. Newcomerstown, Ohio 43832 1974 Ray Tanner, 1815 Williams, Norwood Branch, Cincinnati, Ohio 45212 1974 Editorial Staff and Publications Committee Editor - Robert N. Converse, 199 Converse Drive, Plain-City, Ohio 43064 Associate Editor - Martha A. Potter, The Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio 43210 Regional Collaborators Richard Patterson, 519 Front St., Marietta, Ohio 45750 David W. Kuhn, 3222 Scioto Trail, Portsmouth, Ohio 45662 Myers Campbell, 205 Mt. Pleasant St., Mingo Junction, Ohio 43938 Carl B. Dunn, 120 Crescent Court, Bucyrus, Ohio 44820 Charles Stout Sr., 91 Redbank Drive, Fairborn, Ohio 45324 Jeff Carskadden, 2686 Carol Drive, Zanesville, Ohio 43701 Elmer H. Grimm, 7123 N. Murray Ridge Rd., Elyria, Ohio 44035 Olaf H. Prufer, Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44240 Jerry Hastings, R. D. 1, Box 4114A-1, Ironton, Ohio 45638 Claude Britt, Jr., 3401 N. Columbus, 26H, Tucson, Arizona 85716 Kenneth Goodman, 2528 Swansea Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43221 Leonard H. Brown, R. D. 3, Newcomerstown, Ohio 43832 Ray Tanner, 1815 Williams, Norwood Branch, Cincinnati, Ohio 45212 EDITORIAL OFFICE BUSINESS OFFICE 199 Converse Drive 1150 Virginia Ave. Plain City, Ohio 43064 Columbus, Ohio 43212 Membership and Dues Annual dues to the Archaeological Society of Ohio are payable on the first of January as follows: Regular membership $5.00; Husband and wife (one copy of publication) $6.00; Sustain­ ing $25.00. Funds are used for publishing the "Ohio Archaeologist". The Archaeological Society of Ohio is an incorporated non-profit organization and has no paid officers or employees. The "Ohio Archaeologist" is published quarterly and subscription is included in the membership dues. Back Issues Back issues of the Ohio Archaeologist may be purchased at the following prices. ISSUE SEND TO: Ohio Flint Types - $3.50 per copy 199 Converse Drive, Plain City, Ohio 43064 Ohio Stone Tools - $2.00 per copy 199 Converse Drive, Plain City, Ohio 43064 All other back issues - $1.50 per copy 1150 Virginia Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43212 Make all checks or money orders payable to the Archaeological Society of Ohio Ohio Slate Types — $5.00 per copy 1150 Virginia Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43212 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGIST VOLUME 22 TABLE OF CONTENTS NUMBER 2 President's Page 2 Bar Amulets 3 Two Absolute Dating Techniques 4 An Archaic Site Near Thornville, Perry County, Ohio 6 An Analysis of Blades from Three Hopewellian Sites in Muskingum County, Ohio 8 An Unusual Knife 11 A Large Kentucky Fluted Point 12 A South Park Burial 13 Aboriginal Flint Quarrying Activities in the Muskingum County Area 15 Tubes and Ball Banners 22 An Adena Campsite 23 A Crane Effigy Pipe 25 Hermatite Artifacts 26 Two Unusual Knives 26 Artifacts Found in Licking(Pickaway, and Clark Counties 27 Some Thoughts on the Current State of Archaeology 29 A Note on the South Park Ceramics 31 Flints Used by Ohio's Prehistoric Indians 36 Scenes from the March meeting at Columbus 40 Necrology 41 Book Reprints 41 Federal Salvage Bill 41 Seven Granite Axes 42 Awards 42 Correction 42 Glacial Kame Artifacts .43 Front Cover This highly polished gorget is of red Ohio pipestone, and was found along the Ohio River in Scioto County, Ohio, by James W. Miller of Portsmouth. It is 2% inches long, 1 inch wide, and about Va inch thick. Its upper surface is gently convex and tapers toward each end. Gorgets of Ohio pipestone are of rare occurence in Ohio. President's Page For the last two years I have had the can be ordered from our business office. pleasure of serving the Archaeological Society Our Society now has over 1350 members- of Ohio as its President. During this time I membership made up of professionals, have been very fortunate to have a fine group amateurs, universities, museums, libraries, and of fellow officers to work with. These schools. We have members in the military officers, who have done their jobs well, have service and nearly all the fifty states as well as also made my job much easier and more in foreign countries. We are proud to have enjoyable. I wish to thank each and every such a wide cross-section of members and we one of them for helping me and doing their know that only through hard work and a job as it should be done. good publication it can be increased. During the past two years the By the time you read this letter you will Archaeological Society has made progress in have received two ballots - one for revising many directions. I will not be able to tell you and updating the constitution and the other of all of our accomplishments but I will tell for voting for Society officers. The about some which I feel are important. constitution had to be changed because of We have been able to operate the Society requirements of the Internal Revenue code. without a dues increase, even though postage, These changes have been approved by the printing, office supplies, and general costs Board of Directors and we urge you to have increased considerably. We were able to support them by voting yes on this ballot. offset these increases by implementing fund The ballot for officer candidates should be raising programs which the officers and filled out and returned as soon as possible. trustees help establish. All of these programs Vote for the people of your choice and give were successful in subsidizing the treasury and them your continuous support. helping to pay the rising costs of operating In closing, I would like to say to all of our the Society. A special thanks to our members thank you for a precious two years membership for their acceptance and help in as your President. To all of those members making these programs successful. who have invited me to visit their homes and Another accomplishment by the Society view their collections, I have not forgotten and our Editor, Robert Converse, has been the you and I intend to fulfill my promise this first of our special Publications Ohio Slate summer as time will allow. Types. This is a fine reference book on Ohio Good luck and happy hunting to each and slate and is the only book I know of on Ohio every one of you. slate forms. It has been well accepted by professional and amateur archaeologists. This book along with other Society publications Jack Hooks BAR AMULETS by Garret Zuber, Antwerp, Ohio <T> Pictured are five bar amulets from my collection. Smallest to the largest are from Paulding, Defiance, Montgomery, Putnam, and Van Wert Counties. Longest specimen is 7% inches long. Two Absolute Dating Techniques For Fired Clay Artifacts by Robert 0. Whitman P.O. Box 548 Dover, Ohio 44622 Introduction These angles of dip and declination not only differ from year to year but also from place Pottery is one of the archaeologist's to place. This variation offeres one of the most important sources of information about main drawbacks to the technique, for re­ a people and their past. The archaeologist is corded data on many sections of the world able to say something about the relative time are unavailable. period and origins of a site by studying the To overcome the lack of data, archaeo­ style, temper, and surface markings on the logists have collected a number of fired clay pottery. The occurence of similar types of samples that could be dated by some other pottery in several different sites links these technique. When these samples from one area sites and reflects the economics and cultural are dated, a curve is plotted that shows the patterns of the inhabitants. variations in angles of declinations and dip The problem arises when the archaeologist through time. Then when samples of an un­ wants an absolute dating technique he can use known date are measured, they can be com­ directly on pottery. In many cases an absolute pared with the charted dates and their ages date can be assigned when other datable mat­ calculated (Hole and Heizer 1966:153). erials are found with the ceramics, but when Another important drawback to the techni- an absolute date is needed on the pottery it­ que is that the sample to be dated must self, the techniques available to the archaeo­ have remained in situ since it was fired. This logist are limited. However, there are two re­ criterion limits considerably the samples that liable methods that promise to be helpful to may be dated. However, kilns, fireplaces, and the archaeologist in the absolute dating of other fired clay artifacts may be used. Even pottery and other fired clay artifacts. They though pottery itself can not be dated, if it are archeomagnetic and thermoluminescence can be related to a datable kiln or hearth, a dating.