TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AD  - University of Southern Indiana
AU  - Ulrich, Elise
DA  - 2023-04-06
ID  - 1460527
KW  - bone pins
KW  - crib mound
L1  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460527/files/Elsie%20Ulrich%20Bone%20Pins%20Poster%20%28revised%29.pdf
L2  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460527/files/Elsie%20Ulrich%20Bone%20Pins%20Poster%20%28revised%29.pdf
L4  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460527/files/Elsie%20Ulrich%20Bone%20Pins%20Poster%20%28revised%29.pdf
LA  - eng
LK  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460527/files/Elsie%20Ulrich%20Bone%20Pins%20Poster%20%28revised%29.pdf
N2  - 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.
PY  - 2023-04-06
T1  - Bone Pins from Crib Mound
TI  - Bone Pins from Crib Mound
UR  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1460527/files/Elsie%20Ulrich%20Bone%20Pins%20Poster%20%28revised%29.pdf
Y1  - 2023-04-06
ER  -