Volume 64, Number 1, January 2017
On the Cover: The Matanzas people lived during the fourth millennium B.C. The name is Spanish and means to “slaughter,” and was taken from West Matanzas in Fulton County, Illinois. They were known for their stone cups, ground stone axes and projectile points. But their most artistic and skillful achievements were their carved bone hairpins. These five pristine examples were found at the Saline River Site in Gallatin County, Illinois. The longest measures 8 inches in length. Photography by Steven R. Cooper
Table of Contents
| Title | Author | Page(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Message from the Editor | Steven R. Cooper | 3 |
| Letters to the Editor | Paul Herrick; Ron L. Harris; Peter G. Murphy; David W. Perky; David H. Dye | 4 |
| From Clay to Copper – Minerals and Artifacts of Etowah | Steven R. Cooper | 4 |
| Dragonfly | C. J. O’Neill | 5 |
| The Matanzas: Engraved and Fancy Headed Bone Hairpins of the Late Middle Archaic Period (3900–3100 B.C.) and Much More | David L. Lutz | 6–35 |
| Collapse of Prehistoric Midwest Civilizations | E. J. Neiburger; Sarah Shulman | 36–41 |
| The Story Behind a Cameron Parks Banded Slate Birdstone | Bob Burns | 42–47 |
| A Celt Among the Strawberries | Peter G. Murphy; Alice J. Murphy | 48–49 |
| Found! A Clear Quartz Point | Terry Ravey | 49 |
| Stone Age to Solar Age: The Largest North Carolina Cache | Ron L. Harris | 50–53 |
| The “New” Field | Bill Moody | 54–55 |
| Collections: Museums versus Private | Charlie Wagers | 56 |
| An Indian Contact Period Pipe | James E. Maus | 57–58 |
| An Odd Stone Artifact | Stephen Deger | 59 |
| Proposed Changes in Projectile Point Typology and Chronology for Western North Carolina – Part Four | V. Gary Henry | 60–61 |
| A Lesson in Restoration | John McCurdy | 62–63 |
| The Saga of a Giant and Two Dwarfs | David Marolf | 64–66 |
| A Huge Bonus | Gregg Smith | 66 |
| Strangers in a New Land: What Archaeology Reveals About the First Americans (Review) | — | 67 |
| Who’s Who in Indian Relics, Volume Eleven (Review) | Review by John McCurdy | 67 |
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