Volume 60, Number 2, April 2013
On the Cover: Grave Creek Mound in West Virginia as shown in the 1847 publication Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (Fig. 56). This huge Adena conical style mound measures 62 feet high, 240 feet in diameter and contains 60,000 tons of dirt. It was originally surrounded by a moat 40 feet in width and 5 feet in depth.
It was discovered by Joseph Tomlinson in 1770, mentioned by Lewis and Clark, and eventually tunneled into by a descendant of Tomlinson in the 1830’s. They found two rooms deep in the mound, and uncovered over 2000 beads, copper artifacts and a tablet. Once the mound was completely excavated, a museum was opened inside the mound with an admission fee for visitors. The mound was saved from destruction in 1908 by local women, and it became a National Historical Landmark in 1964. For the full story on Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, see page 62 inside this issue.
Table of Contents
| Title | Author | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Message from your Editor | Steven R. Cooper | 59 |
| Letters to the Editor | Kurt Kruggel, Truett Garner, George Jachim, Jim Felke and Glenn Borden | 60–61 |
| Obituary – Jan Walter Sorgenfrei (1942–2012) | Ron Smith and Charlie Wagers | 61 |
| Obituary – Jasper Newton Bailey Jr. (1923–2013) | Tim Fields and Paul Sanders | 61 |
| Obituary – George Looney (1954–2013) | Steve Colbert | 61 |
| Obituary – Mike Miller (1956–2012) | Terry Goette | 61 |
| Squier and Davis and the Fate of the First Great Collection | Steven R. Cooper | 62–69 |
| Interesting Discoveries from Refitting at Nobles Pond | N. E. Nilsson, L. L. Morris, G. L. Summers and P. J. Barans | 70–74 |
| A Circle of Axes | Alfred D. Savage | 75 |
| The Old Copper Culture: Mini-ingots and Trade | E. J. Neiburger | 76–79 |
| Book Review – Bipoints Before Clovis: Trans-Oceanic Migrations and Settlement of Prehistoric Americas; The Adena Culture of the Sandy Hill Area, Dorchester County, Maryland | Wm. Jack Hranicky | 79 |
| More Than a Coincidence? | Tom Westfall | 80 |
| Iowa Slant Grove Axes: Some Observations | Jeffrey Steiner | 81 |
| A West Central Illinois Folsom Point: The Quincy Folsom – A Unique Regional Variation of a Rare Point Type | Korhan B. Raif | 82 |
| The Story of Old Blue | Jeff Hipskind | 83 |
| A Huge Raised-Ridge Grooved Axe from North Carolina | Ron L. Harris | 84–85 |
| A Unique Celt Found in Carroll County, Indiana | James Tharp | 86–87 |
| The Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference | Greg Moore | 87 |
| Some Middle Mississippian Artifacts from Cass County, Illinois | Ray Fraser | 88–90 |
| The Spavinaw Creek Dart Point | Matt Rowe | 90–91 |
| Preforms | Bob Reeves | 92–93 |
| Ancient Art at the Saline’s South Fork | Mike Sutton | 94–99 |
| An Unknown Extinct Bison Bone Paleo Tool, a Chopped Proboscidean Tusk, and a Bone Spear Point from Southwest Iowa | David A. Easterla | 100–102 |
| Middle-Archaic Morrow Mountain Projectile Points of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Major Change in Design from the Early Archaic | Peter G. Murphy and Alice J. Murphy | 103–105 |
| A Michigan Birdstone Discovery | Bill Moody | 106 |
| What Won’t Some Women Do for Love? My First Excursion | Pam Sheets | 107 |
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