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001460527 245__ $$aBone Pins from Crib Mound
001460527 269__ $$a2023-04-06
001460527 520__ $$aCrib 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.
001460527 6531_ $$abone pins
001460527 6531_ $$acrib mound
001460527 7001_ $$aUlrich, Elise$$uUniversity of Southern Indiana
001460527 711__ $$a2023 Endeavor Award$$uUniversity of Southern Indiana$$d2023-04-06
001460527 8564_ $$971cfa5c7-83fc-40c8-85da-93ad4daa500a$$s1358123$$uhttps://library.usi.edu/record/1460527/files/Elsie%20Ulrich%20Bone%20Pins%20Poster%20%28revised%29.pdf
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001460527 980__ $$aENDEAVOR
001460527 998__ $$aJefferies, R. W. (1997). Middle Archaic Bone Pins: Evidence of Mid-Holocene Regional-Scale Social Groups in the Southern Midwest. American Antiquity 62(3): 464–487.
001460527 998__ $$aPutty, Teresa K. (2008) “Crib Mound: Identifying the Major Components.” Unpublished M.A. thesis, Ball State University, Muncie.
001460527 998__ $$aWhite, Andrew A. (2003). Temporal Variation in Late Middle Archaic Bone Pins. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 28(1):49–72.