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Title
Adena
Stemmed
Point
Subject
American Indians in Ohio
Projectile points
Arrowheads
Tools
Place
Defiance (Ohio)
Defiance County (Ohio)
Description
This.78
"
x
3.15
"
(2
x
8
cm)
projectile
point
is
typical
of the
Adena
stemmed
type
,
which
is
known
for its
characteristic
"
beavertail
"
base
.
Adena
stemmed
points
are
found
throughout
the
Midwest
and in
portions
of the
South
and
New
England
. The
Adena
Culture
(800
B.C.-
100
A.D.)
,
named
for a
mound
found
on the
Chillicothe
estate
of
Thomas
Worthington
,
lived
primarily
in
present-day
Ohio
and
parts
of
Pennsylvania
,
Indiana
,
Kentucky
and
West
Virginia
. They
built
large
effigy
and
burial
mounds
. The
Adena
were
primarily
hunter-gatherers
, but
began
to
grow
squash
and
some
weedy
plants
. This
artifact
is
from the
Ted
and
Ethel
M
.
(Leever)
Shreve
Collection
at the
Defiance
Public
Library
. The
collection
includes
representative
stone
tools
and
artifacts
of
American
Indians
in the
Maumee
Valley
region
of
northwest
Ohio
.
Included
artifacts
are
projectile
points
,
spear
points
,
scrapers
,
knives
,
hammer
stones
, and a
pop-eye
bird
stone
. The
artifacts
are from the
Paleoindian
,
Archaic
,
Woodland
, and
Late
Prehistoric
periods
.
Date of Original
800
B.C
. to
100
A.D
.
Collection
Ted
and
Ethel
M
.
(Leever)
Shreve
Collection
Source
Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
982.1.27
Submitting Institution
Defiance Public Library
Rights
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http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om387_923463_011.tif
Image Height
1200
Image Width
1600
File Size
603.678 KB
Format
picture
;
artifacts
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