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A Hopewell Tool for Decorating Pottery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

George I. Quimby
George I. Quimby*
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Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago, Illinois
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Wedel and Trowbridge described a prehistoric rouletting tool from a Hopewellian site in Wyandotte County, Kansas. This rouletting tool of bone was circular with a notched stamping edge and an attached handle that served also as an axle for the stamping wheel. The discovery of this tool, according to the authors, substantiated rouletting on the principle of wheel-rolling, as originally deduced by Holmes in 1892.

In the collections of the Chicago Natural History Museum there is a Hopewell rouletting tool that may represent a borderline case of the principle of rouletting by wheel-rolling. This tool was excavated from Mound 25 of the Hopewell Group in Ross County, Ohio by Warren K. Moorehead in 1891-92 and until the present time remained unidentified in a miscellaneous collection of fragmentary Hopewell artifacts stored in the Museum.

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American Antiquity , Volume 14 , Issue 4Part1 , April 1949 , pp. 344
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1949

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References

1 Glenn A. Black, “A Critique of Some Archaeological Field Methods,” Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science for 1947, Vol. 57, p. 16, Muncie, 1948.

2 Helmut De Terra, “Preliminary Note On the Discovery of Fossil Man at Tepexpan in the Valley of Mexico,” AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 40-4, 1947.

3 De Terra, op. cit., p. 41.

4 Idem.

5 Anonymous, “Earliest American Found,” Science News Letter, Vol. 51, No. 10, p. 158. Washington, 1947.

6 Idem.

7 De Terra, op. cit., p. 41.

8 Ibid., Pl. VI, A.

9 Anonymous, “Scientists Find Ice Age American,” Life, Vol. 22, No. 13, p. 110. New York, 1947.

10 De Terra, op. cit., p. 41,

11 Idem.

12 Life, Vol. 22, No. 13, p. 110.

13 De Terra, op. cit., Pl. VI. B.

14 Ibid., p. 42.

15 Ibid., p. 41.