The October Meeting will be held at the Derby Historical Museum Date: October 8, 2009 Time: 7:30 PM Place: Derby Historical Museum The Museum is located at the old High School/Grade School in Derby which is located at Woodlawn and Market (It is about 2 blocks south of a main East- West Street , Madison They have acquired the collection of over 3000 Artifacts from Friends University Walt Engle has done a fantastic job of identifying, arranging them to a great display of projectile points of Clovis age to more recent arrowheads this is something you don t want to miss. Exhibition of Archaeological Collection in the Derby Historical MuseumCurator: Walt Engel Represented in the exhibition are the combined collections of John Mardock, Jack Turner, Jerry Hubbard, Asa Dillon, Belle Foster Vickers and a Mr. Lawrence. These artifacts were surface collected from river beds and eroded farm fields in Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia during the last 19th and early 20th Century. They are all utilitarian artifacts which represent the basic tool kit of the Native American peoples during the last 12,000 years. These collections were originally donated to the Fellow-Reeves Museum at Friends University where they were displayed for many years.These artifacts represent examples of pre-historic Native Americans tool kit, including such items as projectile points (spear, dart and arrow), knives, drills and perforators, scrapers, axes, agricultural implements and grinding tools.Examples are exhibited from each of the archaeological periods from the Paleolithic up to the first European contact. The oldest artifact displayed is a Clovis spear point approximately 12,000 years old and the most recent is a Washita arrow point used about 500 years ago.Included in this exhibition are examples of the tools, implements and weapons used every day to provide food, clothing and shelter. They represent the technology of the time and were altered and adapted as conditions changed. This accounts for the wide variety of shapes, sizes and configurations of these tools. Native Americans consistently practiced recycling. Points and knives were resharpened many times before they were discarded. Broken and damaged points were commonly reshaped into drills, scrapers, spokeshaves, gravers and cutting tools. Many examples from each of the major time periods and displayed. This collection contains a wide variety of named projectile points which have been well documented in published scientific research by archaeologists. This information was heavily utilized in the dating and chronological placement of artifacts in this exhibit. Also utilized were original collectors markings on some artifacts which included date found, finder s name, county and state of origin.For many years all notched and stemmed artifacts like
