ENGRAVED
CONCH The Spiro Mounds site has produced many unique artifacts. The engraved conch shell cup in this picture is a nice example. The most important and extraordinary finds from Craig Mound are the shell engravings. The multitude of images the engravings portray are the best written visual history left behind on a single America. The Phillips & Brown project of recording shell engravings from Craig Mound fragments of cups ("conch shell dippers"), gorgets and other small miscellaneous pieces. The Peabody Museum Press published the study in "Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings". |