OHIO ARCHAEOLOGIST VOLUME 33, NO. 4 FALL 1983 The Archaeological Society of Ohio EXPIRES OFFICERS Robert Harter, 1961 Buttermilk Hill, Delaware, Ohio Associate Editor, Martha P. Otto. Ohio Historical Society, 1984 President Mike Kish, 39 Parkview Ave , Columbus. Ohio Westerville. Ohio 43081 Jeff Carskadden. 960 Eastward Circle, Colony North. 1984 Immediate Past President Frank Otto, 2200 E Powell Rd.. Zanesville. Ohio 43701 Westerville, Ohio 43081 1984 Vice President Don Gelbach, 3435 Sciotangy Dr , All articles, reviews and comments on the Ohio Archaeologist should be sent to the Editor. Memberships, requests for back Columbus, Ohio 43221 issues, changes of address, and other matter should be sent to 1984 Exec, Sect. Scott Haskins, 484 Stinchcomb Dr , the business office. Apt 23. Columbus, Ohio 43202 1984 Treasurer Jim Perry. 2668 Blendon Woods Blvd PLEASE NOTIFY BUSINESS OFFICE IMMEDIATELY OF AD­ Columbus, Ohio 43229 DRESS CHANGES. BY POSTAL REGULATIONS SOCIETY MAIL 1984 Rec. Sect. 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Chairman Don Bapst Craig Ciola Don Gehlbach. Co-Chairman Robert Converse Jeff Fruth Tom Grubb Dan Rosette Ernie Good James Gooding Jim Hahn Virginia Morelock Dorothy Good Martha Otto Paul Ford Mark Seeley Lar Hothem CONTENTS The Expanded Center "Gorget": A Late Adena Bar Atlatl Weight 4 An Unusual Ohio Birdstone 9 A Preliminary Report Of A Mastodon Tooth Find And a Paleo-lndian Site In Hardin County, 0 10 Glacial Kame Presence In The Ottawa County Area 14 Personal Finds— 1983 16 Results Of The ASO Questionnaire 17 A Bird Effigy Pipe From The Philo 11 Site 20 An Unfinished Tubular Pipe 21 Report On The Knight Hollow Rockshelter 22 Chips Off The Same Block 29 The Sycamore Run Chapter Field Survey 30 A Crawford County Engraved Trapezoidal Pendant 32 A Quartzite Fluted Point 33 Suggestions For Exhibiting Site Displays 34 The "Lost Huron" Or "Lost Jesuit" Map Found 36 New Archaeological Report Published 38 American Indian Basketry 38 Necrology 38 Book Review 38 Loot! The Heritage Of Plunder 39 Thank You Note 39 New Southeast Ohio Regional Coordinator Named 39 Front COVer from the northeastern part of the United j BdCk COV©r States or the southeastern part of Can- j Red Slate ada, presumably either quarried from j This outstanding tubular pipe was By Robert N. Converse there or transported to the midwest by j found April 30,1983, by Robin Converse the glacier. Wherever it comes from, red j in a plowed field not far from Plain City One of the scarcest materials used by varieties of it are in an extreme minority ! in Madison County. It is made of sand- prehistoric Indians to manufacture gor- and in my experience I have never seen ! stone, a material typical of such pipes, gets, pendants and other forms of so- a raw piece of it on any surface site- j and although it was found in a field called ceremonial or decorative items, that in contrast to not uncommon finds j which, to the Editor's knowledge, has is red slate. This class of artifact, them- of chunks of gray banded slate on habi- j been under cultivation for several gen- selves enigmas of both purpose and be- tation and camp sites. erations, it hasn't a single scratch on it. wildering design, are usually made of Shown on the front cover are four ex- ! There were no associated artifacts or black or gray banded slate or shale. The amples of red slate gorgets. As may be ! human bones despite the fact that the infrequent use of red slate points to a seen in the color photograph, not all of j pipe must certainly have come from a rarity of a raw material source since it it is the same texture or color and in | burial situation. The only other evidence seems that, in many cases, the more fact may actually be different kinds of j which may have been present were large colorful material was most desirable. stone. At the top is an indented gorget irregular pieces of sandstone scattered The raw material source of slate of collected by Dr. Meuser from Lorain ! in the vicinity. Other artifacts found on any color or variety is a puzzle, and other County. Second is a two-hole gorget ! the site in previous years are of little than the glacial drift, no positive origin from Scioto County, salvaged from a j help in diagnosis of the pipe's origin for it is known to me. The old time col- larger gorget. Third is a bi-concave gor- j since they run the gamut from Archaic lectors-very knowledgeable for their get from Preble County. Fourth is an in- j to Historic Contact times. It measures day and paucity of literature-called it dented gorget from Williams County. 5!4 inches in length and the outside Huronian shale in the belief that it came Editor's collection. diameter at the bowl end is 1 % inches. 3 The Expanded Center "Gorget": A Late Adena Bar Atlatl Weight By Phillip R. Shriver Miami University William C. Mills called it a "boat-shaped skeleton an effigy pipe 8 inches long of center" in labeling this diagnostic Adena gorget" (1902:465), for with one side an achondroplastic dwarf (Potter 1968: form, though one well-known archae­ flat and the other round, with a center 30), the famous Adena Pipe, perhaps ologist was still using it interchangeably that was broad and ends that were nar­ the best-known of all prehistoric arti­ with the Mills' label, "boat-shaped," as row, it reminded him of a boat. And, with facts found to date in Ohio (see Fig. 3). late as 1931 (Seltzer: 1931, 36). "Ex­ two holes in the one he had found, he In addition to the "boat-shaped gor­ panded center" is certainly much less thought it to be a gorget, according to get" found with burial six, Mills found subject to confusion than "boat-shaped," the old rule of thumb that if a small stone two biconcave gorgets associated with particularly in light of the subsequent object had but a single hole it was likely burials one and twenty, all three burials discovery by Mills of other much dif­ a pendant, but if it had two it probably in the primary mound. The first of the ferent "boat-shaped gorgets" in excava­ was a gorget.