@article{IR,
      recid = {1460527},
      author = {Ulrich, Elise},
      title = {Bone Pins from Crib Mound},
      address = {2023-04-06},
      number = {IR},
      abstract = {Crib Mound is a shell mound in Spencer County, Indiana  that was occupied over many thousands of years and has  yielded a wealth of artifacts.  Over the many decades the  site suffered from erosion by the adjacent Ohio River which  has caused a lot of destruction to the site. The Crib Mound  site has also been heavily looted by collectors, so most  artifacts recovered from the site do not have any  context.

For this project I looked at bone pins from the  Crib Mound site. The pins are from the Charlie Lacer and  Art Gerber collections which are housed in the USI  archaeology lab. Both men were artifact collectors. Bone  pins are either hairpins or clothing items that are made  from  carved  animal bones. They  are thought to date to  the late Middle Archaic period, circa 4000 B.C. Some are  decorated with a variety of carved designs. There are also  a variety of head shapes on these pins, which have been  given various names such as “T-top, and “Crutch top,” by  archaeologists. This project is an extension of previous  work done by Andrew White and Richard Jefferies. White’s  belief was that square-top and fishtail types were earlier  in time, while the T-top and crutch-top were later types.  My work was to test if White’s hypothesis was correct and  to also see if there was any overlap with decorations and  head types on the bone pins. In my study there were 159  head sections, 33 mid-sections, 156 tips, 4 nearly whole  pins, 39 whole pins, and 1 unidentifiable portion.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1460527},
}