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A tomahawk is a type of single-handed axe used by the many Indigenous peoples and nations of North America. It traditionally resembles a hatchet with a straight shaft. [1] [2] In pre-colonial times the head was made of stone, bone, or antler, and European settlers later introduced heads of iron and steel. The term came into the English language ...
October 15, 1966. Town Creek Indian Mound ( 31 MG 2) [2] is a prehistoric Native American archaeological site located near present-day Mount Gilead, Montgomery County, North Carolina, in the United States. [3] The site, whose main features are a platform mound with a surrounding village and wooden defensive palisade, was built by the Pee Dee, a ...
A typical Clovis point is a medium to large lanceolate point with sharp edges, a third of an inch thick, one to two inches wide, and about four inches (10 cm) long. [4] Sides are parallel to convex, and exhibit careful pressure flaking along the blade edge. The broadest area is towards the base which is distinctly concave with concave grooves ...
Trail of the Whispering Giants. The Trail of the Whispering Giants is a collection of sculptures by Hungarian-born [1] artist Peter Wolf Toth. [2] [3] The sculptures range in height from 20 to 40 feet (6.1 to 12.2 m), and are between 8 and 10 feet (2.4 and 3.0 m) in diameter. [4] In 2009, there were 74 Whispering Giants, [3] with at least one ...
Native Americans used many variations of striking weapons. These weapons were mainly used for melee combat with other tribes. In some cases, these weapons were thrown for long-range attacks. Stone clubs, or casse-tête, were made from a stone attached to a wooden handle. There were also variations of stone clubs where tribes would carve the ...
In archaeological terminology, a projectile point is an object that was hafted to a weapon that was capable of being thrown or projected, such as a javelin, dart, or arrow. They are thus different from weapons presumed to have been kept in the hand, such as knives, spears, axes, hammers, and maces . Stone tools, including projectile points ...
The Laurel complex was a Native American culture in what is now southern Quebec, southern and northwestern Ontario, and east-central Manitoba in Canada; and northern Michigan, northwestern Wisconsin, and northern Minnesota in the United States. They were the first pottery-using people of Ontario north of the Trent-Severn Waterway.
The Old Copper complex or Old Copper culture is an archaeological culture from the Archaic period of North America's Great Lakes region. Artifacts from some of these sites have been dated from 7500 to 1000 BCE. [1] [page needed] It is characterized by widespread copper artifacts, including tools and weapons, as well as ornamental objects.
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