On the Cover
As remembered by Dale Roberts in 2008
March 3, 1968, at the Alton Illinois show, Byron Knoblock suggested to
Jim Cox that the collectors in Iowa were Illinois members, and these members
could be used to form an Iowa society.
That summer, in July, a group of the local collectors got together at
Jim Cox’s house in Cantril, Iowa, to see if there was enough interest
to make the society work.
Floyd Riley Jr., Glen Hummell, Ted Watson, Bob Mitchell, Dean Conger,
Eugene Jones, Merle McDonald, James Conger, and myself (Dale Roberts)
attended the gathering. It was discussed, among other things, who could
go to the November Central States Board meeting which was to be held at
the Kentucky Dam show at Gilbertsville, KY. Betty and I were selected
to present the group’s interest in Iowa becoming the seventh state
society to join the Central States Archaeological Societies.
We attended the show November 16, 1968, and were assured by the CSAS
board that we would be accepted as a new society, and this would be made
official at their delegate meeting the following Memorial Day weekend
at the Viking Motel in St. Louis. As of that meeting we were confirmed
to become the newest society in the Central States for the following year
of 1970.
We were anxious to have a show, and we were not disappointed! The crowd
from St. Louis and the Illinois collectors and dealers vowed their support
with, “You hold a show and we’ll be there!” Our first
show was held in the fall of 1969 a few months before we were officially
designated a society of the
CSAS.
The following are a few of the people who came to see our society off
to a good start: Ben Thompson, Byron Knoblock, B.W. Stephens, Paul Sellers,
Marion Knott, Chuck Adams, George Hoke, Floyd Ritter, Todd Boehmer, Bob
Jenkins, Robert Dunn, and Harold Mohrman.
There were over forty tables full of relics, and was one of the best
shows Iowa has ever had. For our first show at the Roberts Memorial building
the society purchased sawhorses and borrowed planks for the tables from
Pascal Lumber, located across Highway 2 from the show.
We were very lucky he allowed this, as they were nailed to the sawhorses.
Every year they found the planks where they left them the year before,
with a few extra nail holes!
The guys being who they were, couldn’t wait till 1970, and sponsored
a fun show in 1969. This
was held at the Keosauqua school gymnasium, |
| An Overview of Iowa Archaeology |
Richard Michael Gramly Ph.D. |
173 |
| Miniature Iowa Pipestone Artifacts |
Kevin Oetken |
175 |
| Two Tales of Uncle Joe’s Ditch |
David Marolf |
180 |
| A Caddo-Style Cahokian Bottle from Northwest Iowa |
William Green |
182 |
| Van Buren County gives up a Huge Celt |
|
184 |
| A Hopewell Hixton Blade from Jackson County |
|
185 |
| One of Iowa’s Finest Effigy Pipes |
|
199 |
| The Billingsley Miniature Discoidal |
Tommy Bryden |
206 |
| Northwest Iowa Prairie Lakes Woodland Pottery |
John F. Doershuk |
208 |
| A Large Iowa Three-quarter Groove Axe of Questionable Use |
David A. Easterla, Ph.D. |
210 |
| Some Thoughts On The Keokuk Axe |
David James |
220 |
| Bait and Switch: A Shell Fishing Decoy from the Wall Ridge Site |
Patrick J. Collison |
227 |
| The Rattlesnake Shell Gorget |
Jim Roberson |
229 |
| The Marburger-Roberts Hopewell Blade |
Tommy Bryden |
232 |
| History Repeats Itself – A Dalton-Type Cache is Found Again |
Dr. Alfred D. Savage |
236 |
| The Underwater Panther Tablet |
Jim Roberson |
240 |
| A Hopewell Bear Efigy Pipe from Scott County, Iowa |
|
242 |
| Sometimes You Find Other Things! |
|
251 |
| Two Large Blades from Lee County, Iowa |
|
254 |
| The Muscatine County Bannerstone Cache |
Jim Roberson |
260 |
| Ten Muscatine Artifact Collectors |
Lane Freyermuth |
265 |
| A Tall Oak and a Dalton Point |
Ben Worrell |
269 |
| An Iowa Bi-Ridged Full Groove Ceremonial Trophy Axe |
David A. Easterla, Ph.D. |
274 |
