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Figure
Stones in Ohio (Other
than the Day's Knob Site)
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Dave
Gillilan Finds
Pickaway County,
Ohio
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While building a
house, Dave Gillilan uncovered quite a large assemblage
of artifacts of various materials,
which he reported to the author after seeing similar
artifacts on this website. These were in a small
area about
1.5 m (5') down in apparently undisturbed rural terrain.
Among the artifacts was a cache of flint and quartz
points, blades, and scrapers professionally identi- fied
as likely of the Late Archaic to Early Woodland time
frame, or roughly 2000 years BP. Bird and bird-human
motifs like those at the Day's Knob site (as in the
photo above from Dave's finds) are very much in
evidence, as well as some quite remarkable indications
that glass making and metal smelting may have taken
place at the time the lithic artifacts were
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Kenneth B. Johnston Finds
Central Ohio
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| Kenneth
Johnston, a recent visitor to this website, has
now started three of his own showing his finds.
One of these,
http://www.forsakenartifacts.com,
includes a well written essay
presenting his thoughts on the
functional morph- ology of crude stone tools,
these observations corresponding closely to
those presented by this author.
Ken has recently
also come to recognize the simple iconography
often routinely incorporated into
the tools and other lithic artifact material, a fine example of
which is his limestone bird shown below, complete with the frequently
occur - ring flat base on which the figure stands firmly
upright:
On his other
two websites,
http://www.subtleartifacts.com
and http://www.portablerockart.com,
Ken presents his interpretations of
the Figure Stones.
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