Archaeology

Mississippian 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

             Alba Barbed                     Chert Celt                     Fort Ancient                 Fort Ancient Drill

           900 - 1200 C.E.                                                   1100 - 1400 C.E.             Wyandotte Flint

        Fort Ancient Knife                     Graver                      Hayes Barbed, Alba Cluster                        Knife

         Wyandotte Flint                                                                 900 - 1200 C.E.                       Wyandotte Flint

                     Knife                                       Morris                         Nodena Elliptical                  Randolph

             Wyandotte Flint                      1200 - 1300 C.E.                   1400 - 1700 C.E.                  1700 C.E.

                                                   Not typical for Ohio Valley          To Historical Contact          Historical Contact

                      Scallorn                                  Sequoyah                           Strike-A-Light

               700 - 1100 C.E.                         1000 - 1550 C.E. 

Transitional Woodland - Mississippian

                          Archaic Tools              Woodland Tools

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

Created May 3, 2010, Updated May, 7 2010