Volume 66, Number 3, July 2019
On the Cover: This beautiful gorget is on display at the University of Oklahoma, Sam Noble Museum in Norman, Oklahoma. The gorget was found in the 1930s at the Spiro Mounds site (34LF40), which is located in eastern Oklahoma, seven miles from the Arkansas River. This unusual gorget is similar in fashion to Cox Mound gorgets which depict crested super-natural avian beings at the four corners of the world. In this specimen, their heads emerge from the circular frame of shell (their design may be based on pelicans from the Gulf of Mexico), and revolve around a central design element, which resembles one utilized on triskele gorgets showing the axis-mundi (world axis). This element is fenestrated (cut out). Many items found at Spiro exhibit evidence of having traveled great distances, and it is possible this gorget was created as far away as Florida. One similar (but highly eroded) example was once in the Florida collection of E.G. Barnhill (1896-1987).The gorget measures 3 ¾ inches in width, and is shown actual size.
Photograph by Steven R. Cooper
Table of Contents
| Title | Author | Page(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Message from the Editor | Steven R. Cooper | 115 |
| Mississippian Four-Crested-Bird Marine Shell Gorgets from Tennessee and Alabama | Kevin E. Smith | 116–119 |
| A Missed Opportunity | Paul Herrick | 120–121 |
| Decatur Style Points in North Carolina | Ron L. Harris | 122–124 |
| Lost Lake Points Bring a Big Smile | Howard King | 124–125 |
| Chattanooga’s Citico Creek Mound | Thomas Crowl | 126–131 |
| Raised Ridge Axes – Part One | V. Gary Henry | 132–134 |
| Philip Randolph Helms 1947–2019 | — | 134 |
| The Proper Way to Document All Found Artifacts | King Ross | 135 |
| A Mysterious Trapezoid Stone | David A. Easterla | 136 |
| A Rare and Beautiful Cameo Bottle | Jim Maus | 137 |
| Thoughts and Lessons | David Marolf | 138–139 |
| Robert “Bob” Rantz 1958–2018 | Alexis Weisser | 139 |
| Etowah Artifacts from the General William Tecumseh Sherman Collection | Steven R. Cooper | 140–141 |
| A Very Special Day | Andy Whitt | 142 |
| A Unique Set of Twins | Tim Dunham | 143 |
| Appreciating the Old Time Collectors | John M. Selmer | 144–145 |
| Hopewell Culture Blades from Upland Stream Locations in Northeastern Illinois | Edmund Butkus | 146–147 |
| It Must Have Been Fate | Josh Gerecke | 147 |
| Bannerstones: A Rebuttal to the Spear-Mounted Hypothesis | Larry Kinsella | 148–150 |
| DNA, Ancestry and the Tracing of Ancient Populations: The Case of Kennewick Man | E. J. Neiburger | 151–159 |
| Long Nosed God Maskettes | Sandy B. Carter Jr. | 159–160 |
| Ira Hascal “Hack” Bertram 1927–2018 | Don Reynolds | 160 |
| Three Frontier Knives of the Nineteenth Century | Peter G. Murphy; Alice J. Murphy | 160–163 |
| Archaeology and Artifacts: Three Newly Revised Archaeology Books | David H. Dye | 163 |
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