Bladelet
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Title |
Bladelet |
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Subject |
Hopewell culture
Woodland culture
Mound-builders
Tools, Prehistoric |
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Time Period |
Middle Woodland |
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Description |
This bladelet, made of dark bluish gray and bluish gray Upper Mercer flint, is slightly curved and rounded at both ends. The sides of the bladelet are parallel and there is a flake scar running the entire length of the dorsal side. This piece is from Hopewell Culture. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large--the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior. |
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Collection |
Raymond J. Ater Collection |
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Source |
WH04 Box AC0011; A 3062/000163.003 |
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Submitting Institution |
Ohio History Connection |
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Rights |
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/collections--archives/digital-collections--services/rights--reproduction |
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Type |
StillImage |
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File Name |
A3062_000163_003.tif |
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Image Height |
2448 |
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Image Width |
3264 |
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File Size |
23982016 Bytes |
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Format |
picture; artifacts |
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Extent |
11.9 mm wide, 83.3 mm long, 3.8 mm deep, 3 g weight. |
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