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This Hardin, which is shown in situ, was a personal find of Andy Shull in Newberry County, South Carolina. It was found on January 4, 2023, which according to Andy was a bitter cold day. He lives near where he found this. He has found several thousand points, but this is his only Hardin. It is made from heavily weathered Coastal Plains chert from at least 100 miles away. To his knowledge, only four Hardin points have been found in this area and all have been crafted from Coastal Plains chert. This is as rare as it comes for this region.
Collection of Andy Shull, Prosperity, South Carolina
Central States Archaeological Journal Volume 73, Number 2, April, 2026
Table of Contents
| Title | Author | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Message from Your Editor | 59 | |
| Letters to the Editor | 60 | |
| Cumberland Point Re-Purposing: Do They Provide Clues to Hafting? | Dennis Kerns | 61 |
| Proboscidean (Mammoth and Mastodon) Bones Modified by Paleo-Humans from Northwest Missouri and Southwest Iowa | Angelo P. Bufalino; David A. Easterla | 64 |
| The Glacial Kame People of Southern Michigan | Todd Walterspaugh | 71 |
| Anciently Salvaged Double Crescent Bannerstone | John M. Selmer | 74 |
| Thoughts on Delivery of the Journal | Matt Dorso | 74 |
| Petrified Wood: Are There Stages within the Process? | Darrel G. Wilson | 75 |
| A Third Record of the Extinct Stag-Moose (Cervalces scotti) Antler with Cut Marks, and Pre-Clovis Carbon Dates for Two Human Modified Proboscidean Leg Bones (Corrected) | David A. Easterla | 78 |
| Obituary: Clyde Leland Thomas | 78 | |
| My Best Axe | Steve Valentine | 79 |
| Small and Large “Trophy Axes” | Richard Michael Gramly | 80 |
| Evidence for the Archaeological Value in Surface Collecting: An Account of a Quartz Scraper Workshop | William Moody | 82 |
| Miniature Mississippian Monolithic Axe Pendants | Sandy B. Carter Jr. | 84 |
| Another Dimplestone from Early County, Georgia | Olan Moore | 86 |
| A Very Fascinating Tool | Jeff Hipskind | 87 |
| Two Interesting Items from the Northeast: A Red Paint Point from Maine; Conoy Indian Town Trade Beads, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (1718–1743) | Keith Cicero | 88 |
| A New Test for Old Copper Fakes | E. J. Neiburger | 90 |
| Obituary: Harry Thomas Davis | 95 | |
| My First Find | Camdern Baker | 96 |
| Something Intriguing from Texas | Michael Allen | 97 |
| Kogers Island Moundville-Style Palette Pendants | Sandy B. Carter Jr. | 98 |
| Small Narrow-Stemmed Quartz Projectile Points of the Late Archaic in Southern New England | Matt Dorso | 101 |
| A Thank You to John Deere – From Stone Age to Iron Age: A Natural Course of Events | Alfred D. Savage | 105 |
| The Kensington/Ogden Site: A Seventeenth Century French Coin Unearthed Near the Chicago Portage in Cook County, Illinois | Brian G. Bardy | 105 |
| Obituary: Peter George Murphy | 106 | |
| Book Review: Adena – Mound Builders of the Ohio Valley | 107 |
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