Excavations at Garden Creek Mound No. 1 in Haywood County, North Carolina, in 1879–1880 yielded about 2,500 artifacts, including bird stones, boat stones, ladles, gouges, effigies, axes, celts, cups and paint stones. About 900 went to the Valentine Museum in Richmond, Virginia; others went to the University of North Carolina and the Smithsonian. An 1882 paper in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland described the stone carvings. The video argues that they represent guardian spirits, or tutelary deities, associated with different clan groups.
About 2,500 artifacts recovered at Garden Creek Mound in 1879–1880
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- Excavations at Garden Creek Mound No. 1 in Haywood County, North Carolina, took place in 1879–1880.
- About 2,500 artifacts of various types—not 2,500 different types—were recovered, including bird stones, boat stones, ladles, gouges, effigies, axes, celts, cups and paint stones.
- About 900 artifacts went to the Valentine Museum in Richmond, Virginia; others went to the University of North Carolina and the Smithsonian.
- The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland published a paper describing the stone carvings in 1882; publication of the paper did not itself establish that the artifacts were “proven authentic.”
- The guardian-spirit reading is interpretive: the video argues that the carvings represent guardian spirits, or tutelary deities, associated with different clan groups.
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Garden Creek Mound #1 (Haywood County)ancientnc.web.unc.edu
Mound #1 was the largest mound at Garden Creek and dates to the Pisgah phase; it was also associated with a village midden that is about 5 acres in size.
Garden Creek siteen.wikipedia.org
Artifacts found in Mound #1 include ground stone celts, made of peridotite and slate. [10] Stone anvils, hammerstones, manos, and mortars were also unearthed,
Garden Creek (P-83) - NC DNCRdncr.nc.gov
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What and Where is Garden Creek?digitalcollections.library.appstate.edu
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