BARBED ANTLER ARROW POINT
This socketed barbed
antler arrow point was discovered on the Etowah Mounds site in Bartow
County, Georgia. It was found during the excavation of mound C with burial #1. The
most famous feature at Etowah Mounds is mound C where a high status burial
mound was built in five distinct stages.
ETOWAH
MOUNDS SITE
The Etowah Mounds site is located in Bartow County, Georgia near the
Etowah River. This Mississippian site is approximately 40 acres in size.
It is surrounded on three sides by a large ditch and on the fourth by the
Etowah River. The main feature of the site is a large platform mound,
called mound C. Mound C has three terraces and one prominent ramp. This
mound was a high status burial mound that was built in five distinct
stages. The people who were buried there were priests or chiefs, along
with their families. Etowah was a capital of a "state" that
covered an area along the southeastern foothills of the Appalachians in
western Georgia and the Carolinas. The Etowah Mounds site was in use
during the Etowah and Wilbanks ceramic periods which is representative of
the Southern Appalachian Tradition. |
"REFERENCES"
1985, Perino, Gregory, Selected Preforms, Points & Knives of the
North American Indians" "Antler Points" p. 16 &
17. |