1945 MOUND BUILDERS, PRIMER OF OHIO ARCHAEOLOGY THE MOUND BUILDER AND THE INDIAN

Description: 1945 MOUND BUILDERS, PRIMER OF OHIO ARCHAEOLOGY THE MOUND BUILDER AND THE INDIAN Click images to enlarge Description PRIMER OF OHIO ARCHAEOLOGY The Mound Builders and the Indians H. C. SHETRONE FOURTH EDITION 1945 COLUMBUS, OHIO THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY 44 PAGES SOFTCOVER THIS BOOK IS COMPLETE, CLEAN AND IN VERY GOOD CONDITION... PLEASE SEE PICTURES CONTENTS... Foreword 3 The Mound-Builders and the Indians 5 The First Ohioans 5 Ancient Mounds and Earthworks 7 The Archaeologist and His Work 12 Various Kinds of Mound-Builders 13 The Inside Story of a Mound 15 Ancient Non-mound-building Tribes 22 Questions Concerning the Mound-Builders 24 How Things Began 25 Arts and Crafts 27 The Use of Stone 27 The Use of Flint 32 Prehistoric Farming 36 The Use of Bone 37 Use of Clay for Pottery 38 Spinning and Weaving 39 The Use of Metals 40 Personal Ornamentation 41 The Art of the Mound-Builders 42 Tobacco and Tobacco Pipes 43 “Ceremonial” Objects 44 PRIMER OF OHIO ARCHAEOLOGY FOREWORD This booklet is issued by the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society in response to a demand for a brief outline of the main features of prehistoric archæology in Ohio. While intended primarily for use of students in the elementary schools, it is hoped that visitors to the Museum, and the general public, as well as collectors of archæological material, and students of prehistory, may find the brief summary contained herein of interest and value. Since types of archæological specimens are fairly similar throughout the area east of the Rocky Mountains, and particularly within the general Mound area, the information contained in this summary is broadly applicable even outside the boundaries of the state of Ohio. Further, since the course of human development has been basically the same the world over, the simple series of local “relics” selected for this study will serve to illustrate how, through countless centuries of pioneering, human beings have advanced from savagery to civilization, thus making for understanding and appreciation of the present time. The wealth of material on display and in the study collections at the Ohio State Museum will serve as an inexhaustible laboratory in further pursuit of the subject by those who may be so inclined. [Illustration: Fig. 1—Archaeological Map of Ohio. The dots on this outline map show the location and distribution of the ancient Mounds of the State.] THE MOUND-BUILDERS AND THE INDIANS When white settlers first entered the country north and west of the Ohio River, from which later on the state of Ohio was to be carved, they found here, as everyone knows, the Indians. When we pause to consider that Ohio today is one of the greatest states in the Union, it is hard to believe that this happened less than two centuries ago. However, the story of the Indian tribes that white men found living on Ohio soil when they arrived is a part of Ohio history, and will not be dwelt upon in this booklet. For the present we are concerned only with the people who lived in Ohio before the historic Indians, and we may refer to them as the first Ohioans. THE FIRST OHIOANS White people had not been on Ohio soil very long before they began to notice peculiar mounds and fortifications built of earth and stone. Evidently these were very ancient, as they were overgrown by the forest. The Indian inhabitants were neither building nor using such structures, nor could they tell the white settlers anything about them. A bit of digging, here and there, soon showed that the mounds contained human burials and that with these were strange relics. Hence it was clear that they had been built by human beings. But by whom? The settlers reasoned, very naturally, that if the tribesmen living in the region had not constructed them, then they must have been built by a people preceding the Indians. And so, lacking a better name, they called them “The Mound-builders,” just as we of today, viewing the few remaining log cabins scattered over the countryside, might call the pioneers “The Cabin-builders.” The settlers, however, who built and lived in the log cabins of pioneer days, realized the value of records, so that people who came after them might know who they were and what they did. And so they wrote history. But the Mound-builders had not yet progressed far enough on the road to civilization to do this; and so we must look elsewhere for the answers to those questions which naturally come into our minds. Who were the Mound-builders? Where did they come from, and when; why did they build Mounds; and what became of them? The pioneer settlers who first noticed the Mounds could not open a book and read the answers to these queries. But as the years have passed, the puzzles have been solved in a most interesting manner, as we shall see presently. To begin with the Mounds and Earthworks themselves, it may be said that there are many thousands of them. They are scattered over 20 or more states, from the Mississippi River eastward to the Atlantic and extending southward to the Gulf and into Florida. Ohio, it may be truly said, was the center of Mound-builder life, as a result of which it has come to be known as the Mound-builder state. More than 5,000 Mounds, fortifications and other remains of these interesting people have been located within its bounds. ANCIENT MOUNDS AND EARTHWORKS Pictures sell! Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing.300+ Listing Templates! Auctiva gets you noticed! The complete eBay Selling Solution. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter

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