Robbins Blade   Save
A. T. Wehrle Collection
Description: This Robbins type biface is leaf-shaped and made of Flint Ridge flint. One face of the blade is predominantly light gray in color, with several brown veins showing through; the reverse face has a large white area and brown veining running diagonally across the face. This piece comes from the Early Woodland Period. In the centuries just before the birth of Christ, a new culture evolved in eastern North America. Archaeologists refer to this as the Woodland period. People of the Woodland period grew more plant food, lived in permanent villages, made pottery, and emphasized ceremony and art. Se archaeologists in the past believed that the Woodland peoples must have moved into Ohio from places as far away as Mexico. More recent research, however, shows that in much of the Ohio Valley, there was not an abrupt change, but rather a slow shift from Archaic to Woodland lifestyles. Archaeologists have divided the Woodland cultures into three segments, Early, Middle, and Late. Within these segments, groups have been distinguished from each other due to differences in the tools they made. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A3490_000072_081
Subjects: Mound-builders; Tools, Prehistoric
Places: A. T. Wehrle Collection