The Archaic Chisel

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Chisels are tools that most contemporary people understand.  They are implements which feature long and usually narrow steel blades set…

The Unique Caddo Seed Jar

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During the first century AD, the natives of a culture known today as Marksville, were living in the lower Mississippi…

Savannah River

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There has always been debate among Indian artifact collectors about whether some chipped relics are knives or projectile points.  The…

An Unusual Rouletted Pipe

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The American Indians of the Proto-Historic through the Historic Periods (AD 1500-1750) made and used pipes for smoking tobacco and…

A Rare Rat Tail Spud

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During the time that we call the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex or Mississippian Period, the inhabitants in the southern part of…

A Colima Duck Vessel

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The West Mexican states of Colima, Nayarit and Jalisco are famous for the hollow ceramic human effigy figurines, plant and…

The Cherokee Booger Mask

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The people we call the Cherokee Indians have lived in the southeastern mountains for hundreds of years.  They called themselves…

The Ceramic Spoon

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How did they eat their soup without it? A hundred plus years of archaeological research in our country has answered…

An Amazing Human Breast Effigy Bottle

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This writer has studied pottery vessels made by the prehistoric North American Indians for more than half my life. That…

A Chancay Canteen

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After the great Peruvian Wari Empire was broken up around AD 900 several distinct cultural entities appeared in what is…