Biface   Save
Gordon T. Kinder Collection
Description: This small, triangular flint biface is very pale brown in color. One edge is slightly excurvate; the other edge, the basal edge, is straight. Fine edge retouch indicates the biface may have been used as knife. This piece is from Monongahela Culture. The Monongahela people of the Upper Ohio Valley lived in stockaded farming villages in the river valleys and in the uplands. The upland sites may have been built on overland trails that were used for trade and communications. Monongahela dwellings were round, probably domed, huts with attached storage spaces. Some archaeologists believe that competition for farmland led to conflicts among villages. This may have resulted in the abandonment of the region by A.D. 1600. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A3502_000009_001
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples; Stone implements; Tools, Prehistoric;
Places: Gordon T. Kinder Collection