The stone age in North America, vol. 1 of 2Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
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The stone age in North America, vol. 1 of 2
Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
Indians of North America -- Antiquities; Stone age -- North America
I found more of them on prehistoric sites than on Shawano or Delaware
sites in the Ohio Valley. From the surface of South Fort at Fort
Ancient, Warren County, Ohio, I collected one rectangular gorget with
straight sides and two perforations; one oval, with two perforations,
one concave—two perforations; one rectangular pendant, straight sides,
one perforation.
In graves within the South Fort, I found two pendant-shaped gorgets
among decayed human bones. There was one perforation near the end of
each gorget.
In the Coiner mound, three miles east of Frankfort, Ohio, a
diamond-shaped gorget was found under the head of a skeleton.
Three miles down the Scioto River from Chillicothe, in the Redman mound,
were found two gorgets. One with expanded centre, two perforations, with
skeleton. One broad, with concave sides, two perforations, and under
head of skeleton. Both these were of slate.
With skeleton no. 278, in the Hopewell group (explored, 1891), lay a
gorget of cannel coal.
The Storey mound, west of Chillicothe, sheds some light upon the gorget
class. On the right wrist of a skeleton was found a fine expanded centre
gorget of ribbon slate, with two perforations. On the left wrist, one of
the same kind, but not perforated. Also at the left wrist, a concave one
with unusually sharp edges.
In the Roberts mound, Perry County, Ohio, was found a gorget injured by
fire. It was thick, expanded centre, with two perforations, and lay amid
the remains of a cremated skeleton.
At the Corwin mound, one and one half miles north of Waverly, Ohio, a
curious thick stratum of a soft, black substance lay upon the base-line.
In this were several objects of the “problematical” class. One, of
galena, had two perforations, and was almost boat-shaped.
At Beavertown, Ohio, in a mound, the same survey discovered another
slate gorget with straight sides and two perforations.
In all these burials with skeletons, the forms found were chiefly the
pendant, the expanded centre, the ridged and the octagonal outline and
tablets.
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