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Notes on the Adena Aspect*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Robert A. Kercher
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A new material trait of the Adena Aspect has recently been discovered in two mound sites in Ross County, Ohio, viz., tubular pottery pipes with a constricted mouthpiece. Similar specimens in stone are diagnostic of the aspect but pipes made of pottery are unreported in either comprehensive analyses of Adena or the site reports in their bibliographies.

The Renick group of mounds are situated 0.4 mile southeast of Chillicothe on the second terrace overlooking the Scioto River, and are on the property of the Aluminum Company of America. Mound I was 9 feet 1 inch high, had a diameter of 74 feet, and contained 32 burials, 2 subfloor tombs, and a house site. The skeletal remains were generally in an extreme state of decay, in some cases being discernible only as a discoloration in the soil. Mound II, 80 feet to the northeast, was 15 inches high and 30 feet in diameter.

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American Antiquity , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , July 1949 , pp. 61 - 63
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1949

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Footnotes

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The writer is indebted to the Ross County Historical Society, which sponsored the explorations, and to Mr. Donald McBeth, who was in direct charge of the work, for generously making the material remains, field notes, and photographs available for study.

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