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On the Cover Grave Creek Mound in West Virginia as shown in the 1847 publication Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (Fig. 56). This huge Adena conical style mound measures 62 feet high, 240 feet in diameter and contains 60,000 tons of dirt. It was originally surrounded by a moat 40 feet in width and 5 feet in depth. It was discovered by Joseph Tomlinson in 1770, mentioned by Lewis and Clark, and eventually tunneled into by a descendant of Tomlinson in the 1830’s. They found two rooms deep in the mound, and uncovered over 2000 beads, copper artifacts and a tablet. Once the mound was completely excavated, a museum was opened inside the mound with an admission fee for visitors. The mound was saved from destruction in 1908 by local women, and it became a National Historical Landmark in 1964. For the full story on Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, see page 62 inside this issue.
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Message from your Editor		59
Letters to the Editor		60
Obituaries		61
Squier and Davis and the Fate of the First Great Collection	Steven R. Cooper EIC	62
Interesting Discoveries from Refitting at Nobles Pond	N. E. Nilsson, L. L. Morris, G. L. Summers and P. J. Barans	70
A Circle of Axes	Dr. Alfred D. Savage	75
The Old Copper Culture: Mini-ingots and Trade	E.J. Neiburger	76
Book Reviews
Bipoints Before Clovis The Adena Culture of the Sandy Hill Area, Dorchester County, Maryland		79
More Than a Coincidence?	Tom Westfall	80
Iowa Slant Grove Axes: Some Observations	Jeffery Steiner	81
A West Central Illinois Folsom Point: The Quincy Folsom A Unique Regional Variation of a Rare Point Type	Korhan B. Raif M.D.	82
The Story of Old Blue	Jeff Hipskind	83
A Huge Raised-Ridge Grooved Axe from North Carolina	Ron L. Harris	84
A Unique Celt Found in Carroll County, Indiana	James Tharp	86
The Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference	Dr. Greg Moore	87
Some Middle Mississippian Artifacts from Cass County, Illinois	Ray Fraser	88
The Spavinaw Creek Dart Point	Matt Rowe	90
Preforms	Bob Reeves	92
Ancient Art at the Saline’s South Fork	Mike Sutton	94
An Unknown Extinct Bison Bone Paleo Tool, a Chopped Proboscidean Tusk, and a Bone Spear Point From Southwest Iowa	David A. Easterla Ph. D.	100
Middle-Archaic Morrow Mountain Projectile Points of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Major Change in Design from the Early Archaic	Peter G. Murphy and Alice J. Murphy	102
A Michigan Birdstone Discovery	Bill Moody	106
What Won’t Some Women Do For Love? My First Excursion	Pam Sheets	106
Membership Application		108
Officers and Societies		109
Calendar of Events		112