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<< Other Photo Pages >> Tremper - Barrow Cemetery in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 20 December 2012  Page Views: 2117

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tremper
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 8.868 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Barrow Cemetery
 Nearest Village: West Portsmith, OH
Latitude: 38.801501N  Longitude: 83.010367W
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Tremper
Tremper submitted by AKFisher : Early 1900s excavation of the Tremper Mound near Portsmouth, Ohio. The Tremper Mound was an effigy mound, possibly a bear effigy. Hundreds of exquisite pipes were found in the mound. Photo courtesy Greg Little author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Remains of a Burial Mound and Enclosure in Scioto County, Ohio.

The mound is currently (Oct 2012) unmarked, but can vaguely be seen as a low prasture covered mound. There is no visible sign of the original enclosure.

National Register of Historic Places (1972, #72001041.)
Historic Significance: Information Potential
Area of Significance: Prehistoric
Cultural Affiliation: Hopewell
Period of Significance: 499-0 BC, 499-0 AD, 1000-500 AD
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Funerary
Historic Sub-function: Graves/Burials, Mortuary
Current Function: Agriculture/Subsistence
Current Sub-function: Agricultural Fields


Note: Study of pipestone artifacts overturns a century-old assumption. See Comment.
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Tremper
Tremper submitted by AKFisher : Pipes excavated from the Tremper Mound near Portsmouth, Ohio held by the OHC in Columbus. Nearly all of these were made in Illinois. From: Uldrich, E. youtube.com/watch?v=V6BMUdmfy-o Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Tremper
Tremper submitted by AKFisher : Tremper site artifacts. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Tremper
Tremper submitted by AKFisher : Tremper site artifact. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tremper submitted by AKFisher (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tremper submitted by AKFisher : Another of my top 10 artifacts are many well-crafted pipes, both carved from stone and fired clay, that were removed from the Tremper Mound in Ohio as well as in many other places. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tremper submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing from "Mound Builders..." via archive.org

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Re: Tremper by davidmorgan on Sunday, 17 November 2019
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Re: Tremper by Anonymous on Thursday, 05 January 2017
They recently erected a sign upon the mound and the original enclosure is still there just greatly reduced in height due to the farming and tilling of the land. If you can gain access to it you can see it much better.
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Study of pipestone artifacts overturns a century-old assumption by bat400 on Thursday, 20 December 2012
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In the early 1900s, an archaeologist, William Mills, dug up a treasure-trove of carved stone pipes that had been buried almost 2,000 years earlier at the Native American site, called Tremper Mound, in southern Ohio. He made a reasonable -- but untested -- assumption. The pipes looked as if they had been carved from local stone, and so he said they were. That assumption, first published in 1916, has been repeated in scientific publications to this day. But according to a new analysis, Mills was wrong. In a new study, the first to actually test the stone pipes and pipestone from quarries across the upper Midwest, researchers conclude that those who buried the pipes in Tremper Mound got most of their pipestone -- and perhaps even the finished, carved pipes -- from Illinois.

The researchers spent nearly a decade on the new research, collecting mineralogical signatures of stone found in traditional pipestone quarries in Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Ohio. Then they compared those materials to the mineralogical makeup of the artifacts left behind at Tremper Mound.

Less than 20 percent of the 111 Tremper Mound pipes they tested were made from local Ohio stone. About 65 percent were carved from flint clay found only in northern Illinois and 18 percent were made of a stone called catlinite -- from Minnesota.

However, pipes from a site only about 40 miles north of Tremper Mound, an elaborate cluster of immense mounds known as Mound City, were carved almost entirely from local stone. Mound City was inhabited at about the same time or shortly after Tremper Mound, and the pipes found there are stylistically very similar to the Tremper pipes.

The researchers describe their findings in a paper in American Antiquity.

These results should remind archaeologists that things are not as simple as they sometimes appear, said Thomas Emerson, the principal investigator on the study and the director of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) at the University of Illinois. The study also confirms that the people who produced these pipestone artifacts, known today as members of the Hopewell tradition, were more diverse and varied in their cultural practices than scientists once appreciated, Emerson said. Those living in southeastern Ohio, especially, seemed to be "conspicuous consumers and connoisseurs of the exotic," Emerson said.

The Hopewell people from that area collected "massive assemblages of obsidian from Wyoming, mica from the Appalachians, and caches of elaborately carved pipes," Emerson said. They also collected shells from the Gulf Coast, along with the skulls of exotic animals (an alligator, for instance). "Strange animals, strange minerals, strange things were really a focus," he said.

Most of the carved stone pipes from that era have been found in Ohio, Emerson said. Many fewer have been uncovered in Illinois to date, he said, and they are dispersed, not heaped together in giant hordes as in Ohio. There is evidence of stone carving at the Illinois sources where the stone was gathered, but none at Tremper Mound, suggesting that the Illinois stone was carved into pipes before it was transported to Ohio.

The team used a variety of techniques to analyze the material in the quarries and the artifacts, including PIMA, which illuminates a specimen with short-wavelength infrared radiation and records the refracted (unabsorbed) wavelengths, allowing investigators to identify the minerals present, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used on pipe debris.

The new findings should challenge archaeologists to look more carefully at the evidence left behind by the Hopewell people, Emerson said.
"This study really says to the archaeological community, you need to go back to the drawing board," he said.

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