An Assortment of Native American Stone...

Artifacts and Projectile Points with Ohio Provenance. This collection of Native American lithic artifacts primarily originates from the Woodland period of the Ohio River Valley. The group includes a group of to a group of chipped stone projectile points and bifaces made from regional flints and cherts including Flint Ridge and Upper Mercer varieties. These pieces exhibit percussion and pressure flaking with forms characteristic of the Adena culture. A significant portion of the collection is accompanied by handwritten provenance notes. A tag identifies a tan teardrop biface and an ovoid hammerstone as being found on Roy Avenue in The Plains, Ohio. Another note identifies two rounded, heat-discolored stones as fire-cracked rock from the floor of Connett Mound Number 4. The ground stone tool...