Central States Archaeological Journal January 2017

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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