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A Monolithic Ax from Alabama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Carl F. Miller
Carl F. Miller*
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Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C.
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An elaborately carved fragment of metamorphosed schist was sent to me not long ago. I was told that it was plowed up in a field near Fosters, Alabama, which is approximately 7 miles north of Moundville State Park and thus well within the sphere of influence of that cultural center. The specimen is owned by James Willard Dorroh of Buhl, Alabama.

The object constitutes the major portion of a very beautifully carved monolithic ceremonial ax (Fig. 1) superficially resembling one in the Peabody Museum at Yale University (Cat. No. 3701) which has been described by Saville (1916: 5) and MacCurdy (1916: 301).

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American Antiquity , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , October 1958 , pp. 182 - 183
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1958

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