Volume 67, Number 2, April 2020
On the Cover: This is the first time these three remarkable and large rare copper spears have been displayed together. Likely dating to the Late Archaic period (circa 1600 B.C.), they exhibit exceptional craftsmanship and artistic form. The spear on the far left, measuring 6 inches in length, was discovered in 2014 by Bryan Baker in a small niche along a rock shelter wall in Logan County, Kentucky. The center spear, measuring 8¼ inches, was found in 1961 by Buddy Scheidegger at the Crib Mound site in Spencer County, Indiana. The spear on the far right, the largest of the three at 9 inches, was found in 2017 by Aaron Bradford in Meade County, Kentucky.
This particular form is highly unusual and extremely scarce, with only a handful of other known examples, including another from Crib Mound, one from Harrison County, Indiana, and one found by Aaron Bradford’s late father in the same vicinity as Aaron’s discovery. Photograph by Steven R. Cooper.
Table of Contents
| Title | Author | Page(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Message from the Editor | Steven R. Cooper | 59 |
| Letters to the Editor | David J. Vohlken; Jerry Dickey | 60 |
| In the Beginning | Bernard F. Fritz | 60 |
| The Cinmar Bipoint — Virginia’s Oldest Stone Artifact | Wm. Jack Hranicky | 61–62 |
| A Chicago Boy’s Passion for Archaeology | Edmund Butkus | 63–66 |
| Never Trespass — Always Get Permission | Kevin Lilly | 66 |
| The George L. Brooks Jr. Indian Artifact Collection: Cumberland and Salem Counties, New Jersey | Wayne H. Shelby | 67–69 |
| A Late Woodland Whelk Processing Station in New England | Bill Moody | 70–72 |
| Hidden in the Woods: The Norton Mounds of Southwestern Michigan | Peter G. Murphy; Alice J. Murphy | 72–75 |
| The Long Road to Mabila — DeSoto’s Journey into the Continental United States (Review) | — | 75 |
| A Crowfield Knife | John M. Selmer | 76–77 |
| Snoopy’s Find | Franklin P. Everman | 77 |
| Kirk Whaley’s Huron/Iroquois Pipes | Timothy J. Tuttle | 78–79 |
| Desert Worm Shell Beads – Further Insight | Lawrence Cunningham | 79 |
| Raised Ridge Axes – Part Three | V. Gary Henry | 80–82 |
| Two Rare Paleo Knife Types | R. Stephen Irwin | 82–83 |
| Three in Just Forty-Five Minutes | Garrett Robbins | 84–85 |
| A Hardstone Semi-Three Quarter Groove Pipe-axe | David A. Easterla | 86–87 |
| Finding a Gorget with Dad | Cain Williams | 88–89 |
| Did Measles Destroy the American Indian? | E. J. Neiburger | 89–93 |
| Recollections from the Field: The Most Important Thing I Found in Archaeology | Gary S. Foster | 94–95 |
| Obituary: Dennus Tolley 1950–2019 | Roy McKey | 95 |
| Which Lithic Was Used to Make the Artifact You Found? | Richard Peterson | 96–99 |
| Huge Woodland and Mississippian Vessels of the Carolinas | Ron Harris | 100–103 |
| My First Axe | David Marolf | 104 |
| Discoveries in the Suburbs of Chicago | Carl M. Christensen | 105 |
| Archaeology and Artifacts: Moundville’s Stolen Pots | David H. Dye | 106–107 |
| Obituary: William G. Wasemiller 1949–2019 | — | 107 |
