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Archaeology

Archaic Culture Points & Tools ID Album

Artifacts on this page are in the Charles F. Cox Collection, collected in the mid 1900s in fields along the Ohio River in Clark Co., Indiana. All were classified by the late Ruth Strother.

Photos for this web page were taken by Naturalist at Heart volunteer Danny Calton.

Scale = 2 cm in all photos

           

                        Big Creek                                        Big Sandy                 Bottleneck Stemmed Scraper           

                         750 B.C.E.                                8000 - 6000 B.C.E.                          3700 B.C.E.

                

  Bottleneck Stemmed    Brewerton Corner Notched    Brewerton Ear Notched      Brewerton Side Notched

      3700 - 3000 B.C.E.              2980 - 1723 B.C.E.                    2900 - 1700 B.C.E.               2980 - 1723 B.C.E.

                                               Laurentian tradition                       Muldraugh chert

                    Buck Creek Barbed                   Calf Creek                              Decatur                              Delhi  

          1500 - 600 B.C.E.                  8000 - 6000 B.C.E.                7500 - 7000 B.C.E.                3000 - 200 B.C.E.    

                                                                                                     Wyandotte flint            

                       

      Elk River Stemmed                   Eva II                  Etley? Reworked as a Knife                         

        3000 - 2000 B.C.E.           4000 - 2000 B.C.E.                     3000 - 1000 B.C.E.                              

               

                 Etley Scraper                Fox Vally Truncated Barbed             Frazier                    

 .            2000 - 1000 B.C.E.                          6000 B.C.E.                        1200 B.C.E.

      

      Greenbrier (Dalton            Greenbrier Scraper                 Hardaway Side Notched           Hardin Barbed

Cluster) 7000 - 5000 B.C.E.        7000 - 5000 B.C.E.                        8000 - 7000 B.C.E.               8000 - 5500 B.C.E

           Wyandotte flint            

                             

    Karnak Stemmed            Karnak Preform            Karnak hafted scraper  Karnak Unstemmed        

         3700 B.C.E.                 3700 - 3000 B.C.E.               3700 - 3000 B.C.E.        3700 - 3000 B.C.E.            

     Wyandotte flint            Common at Clark's Point                                                   Wyandotte flint

          

          Kanawha Stemmed          Kessel Side Notched       Kirk Corner Notched       Kirk Stemmed

            6210 +/- 100 B.C.E.               7900 +/- 500 B.C.E.            7500 - 6900 B.C.E.       6900 - 6000 B.C.E.  

   Archaic Tools - Page 2      Woodland Tools      Mississippian Tools

To explore these cultures, click Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, or Mississippian.

 

Created April 16, 2010, Updated May 7, 2010