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The Archaic Chisel

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

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The Unique Caddo Seed Jar

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

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Savannah River

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

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An Unusual Rouletted Pipe

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

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A Rare Rat Tail Spud

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

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A Colima Duck Vessel

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

10 months ago

The Cherokee Booger Mask

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

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The Ceramic Spoon

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

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An Amazing Human Breast Effigy Bottle

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

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A Chancay Canteen

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

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