Volume 56, Number 2, April 2009
On the Cover: and below is a prehistoric pottery pipe. It portrays a “Screech Owl”. This pipe is painted with red ocre and displays exceptional artistic skill. It was found approximately twenty years ago beneath a hut floor in Tallassee, Alabama. It is very large, measuring nearly 5 inches in height and 3 ½ inches wide. The bowl shows evidence of smoking. The views below show the fine work at the stem hole and how realistic the bird portrayal is from all angles. Collection of Murray Hughes, Bridgeport, Alabama
Table of Contents
| Title | Author | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Message from Your Editor | — | 59 |
| Presentation Honoring John T. Crowley | Jim Tatum, Ph.D. | 60 |
| An Unusual Dimple Stone from Florida | — | 62 |
| The Wray Point | Tom Westfall | 64 |
| The Petit Jean River Point | Matt Rowe | 68 |
| Three Paleo Points from the Southeast | Steven R. Cooper | 69 |
| Celt Caches on Display at the Cahokia Mounds Museum | Ray Fraser | 72 |
| A Soapstone Lug-Handle Vessel from the Blue Ridge Mountains | Ron Harris | 74 |
| Found in Iowa: Tales of Hunts and Exciting Finds—A Hand Maul Find | Dr. Alfred D. Savage, Ph.D. | 76 |
| A Pott County Sandbar Reveals a Secret | Rick Diemer | 77 |
| Two Antler Bannerstones and an Unknown Antler Artifact from Southwest Iowa | David A. Easterla, Ph.D. | 78 |
| The Unique Caddo Seed Jar | Jim Maus | 82 |
| Selected Book Reviews | Steven R. Cooper | 84 |
| Who’s Who in Virginia Archaeology – Ben C. McCary | — | — |
| Speaking with the Ancestors | — | — |
| Oklahoma Artifacts | — | — |
| For Gold, God, and Glory | — | — |
| Sam Dellinger – Raiders of the Lost Arkansas | — | — |
| Digging for History at Old Washington | — | — |
| The Blackwell Mammoth | E. J. Neiburger, Ph.D. | 88 |
| Never Too Old to Be a Rookie | Warren Hughes Jr. | 92 |
| Make Your Own Judgment | David L. Greives | 93 |
| A Theory on the Usage of Bird Points | Mike Roper | 94 |
| The Benton Cache: An Archaic Enigma | Steven Jordan | 96 |
| Obsidian in Illinois | John Lesmeister | 103 |
| An Exceptional Lost Lake | Tim Guyse | 104 |
| Clues to the Past | Steven R. Cooper | 105 |
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