Volume 55, Number 2, April 2008
On the Cover: This exceptional Archaic period single-face quartz hourglass bannerstone was found by Tim Jones in Van Buren County, Iowa on July 16th 2007. It is made of a beautiful ferruginous quartzite and measures 2 3/4” long by 2 1/4” wide.
According to Jones, he was in the woods riding a four-wheeler around ten in the morning when he spotted a bright object in a ditch. When he went to investigate he discovered this classic bannerstone. The hourglass bannerstone is found throughout the Mid-West, from Louisiana to Ohio in three varieties; single-faced, bi-faced and a rare bi-faced style that has concave faces on each side. The hourglass is considered to be the final developmental pattern that arose from the tube bannerstone.
David Lutz states, in his book The Archaic Bannerstone, that the hourglass pattern dates at around 2000 BC. He further notes that it was during this time that ferruginous quartzite began to be used in bannerstone manufacturing and that the source of the quartz remains a mystery.
Table of Contents
| Title | Author | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Message from Our Officers | — | 59 |
| A Highly Engraved Steatite Pipe Bowl from North Carolina | Ron Harris | 60 |
| Nutting Stones | Jim Maus | 62 |
| A Large Human Effigy Pipe from Warren County, Mississippi | J. Neal Brown | 68 |
| An Unusual Bannerstone Feature | Steven R. Cooper | 71 |
| Gamestones: A Mississippian Enigma | Col. John F. Berner | 72 |
| Florida Plummets | John Baugh | 74 |
| Hunting the Fields Near the Tennessee River | Dennis Tolley | 76 |
| A Rare South Carolina Boatstone | Bob Costello | 77 |
| The Coral Culbreath | Ralph W. Raymond | 78 |
| Old Copper Mandrils | E. J. Neiburger | 80 |
| Lizard Effigy Vessels from Virginia and North Carolina | Jim Glanville | 84 |
| Rock Hunting with the Elderly: The Little Point That Was Found Twice | Betty Roberts | 88 |
| Michigan’s Prehistory: Piecing It Back Together | George Jachim | 89 |
| Plummet Lithic Materials, Dimensions, and Weight Comparisons | James M. Lang & Robert L. Jones | 90 |
| Minutes of the CSAS Delegates Meeting (March 8, 2008) | Dr. Jim Cherry | 93 |
| The Quigley Biface: A Clovis Phase Biface from Larimer County, Colorado | Bill Breckinridge | 95 |
| Southern Oddities and Curiosities | Steven R. Cooper | 102 |
| Book Reviews | — | 104 |
| • Empires in the Forest | Rodney M. Peck | — |
| • Illinois Hopewell and Late Woodland Mounds | Ray Fraser | — |
| Clues to the Past | Steven R. Cooper | 105 |
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