Click to enlarge	A beautiful Adena point found by Jeff Wilkes near Savannah in Hardin County, Tennessee. It measures 5 ½ inches in length. See this and other great relics in the CSASI 2018 October Journal
Click to enlarge	Two earspools above were found in April 2000 in associatrion with a miniature red painted bowl in Nashville, Tennessee, during the digging of a utility trench along Browns Creek off of Granny White Pike. Although in damaged condition, they show how the copper was attached to cedar in order to make a complete earspool. The copper would ave originally been brilliant and bright, but has deterio rated during more than 800 years in the ground, and it is remarkable these survived at all. Each measures 1 ½ inches in diameter. Collection of Steve Dedmon, Watertown, Tennessee See this and other great relics in the CSASI 2018 October Journal
Click to enlarge	Close-upLong Island, Jackson County Alabama/Marion County, Tennessee (Dr. Sandy Carter collection) hand gorget. Photograph by Steven R. Cooper See 'The Yeaman Shell Gorgets from Smith County, Tennessee and a Discussion of “Hand Gorgets” by by Byron McDonald, Mount Juliet, Tennessee, and Kevin E. Smith, Middle Tennessee State University in the CSASI 2018 October Journal
Click to enlarge	This Dovetail point was found in 1986 by Angela Austin and Donnie Armstrong in association with Benton points in Cheatham County, Tennessee. It has Benton style chipping and grinding in the basal area. It was found in a shell mound that sat near the bridge that crosses the Cumberland River. It measures 5 inches in length and is made from a deep brown Dover chert. Collection of Leroy Irons, Gallatin, Tennessee See this and other great relics in the CSASI 2018 October Journal
Click to enlarge	This square elbow pipe is 6 inches long by 3 ¾ inches high. It is made of brown steatite and is probablyearly to mid-Mississippian (900 to 1100 AD). It was recovered on Jolly’s Island, Meigs County, Tennessee (hencethe name Jolly’s Island Pipe) by George Barnes and a Lt. Benham in 1911. Benham’s parents owned the island atthe time. The pipe is typical of the Hiwassee Island and Dallas cultures which existed in the region during that timeframe. See 'Several Types of Prehistoric Tennessee Pipes' by by Steve Hart, in the CSASI 2018 October Journal