Title	Tooth Artifact
Subject	Fort Ancient culture Teeth
Time Period	Late Prehistoric
Description	This canine tooth, likely from a wolf, has a hole drilled at the root end. There are four parallel incisions on the excurvate margin (outward curving surface). The tooth is pale yellow in color and comes from Fort Ancient Culture. The Fort Ancient people were a late prehistoric culture living in southern Ohio between 1,100 and 450 years ago. Fort Ancient people were Ohio's original farmers, growing crops of corn, beans, and squash, and thrived in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky. Villages were made up of a number of circular or rectangular houses surrounding an open plaza. The Fort Ancient people continued to build small burial mounds, but gradually shifted to burials in a cemetery area with no mounds.
Collection	Adam Gartner Collection
Source	WH04 Box CF0009; A 3/000032.001
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
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
Type	StillImage
File Name	A0003_000032_001.tif
Image Height	2448
Image Width	3264
File Size	23983984 Bytes
Format	picture; artifacts
Extent	13.4 mm wide, 49.2 mm long, 8.1 mm deep, 6 g weight.

Tooth Artifact

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