Gregory Perino discovered a shark's tooth club at Cahokia in 1948 in the Ramey field. The club featured real great white shark teeth and flint replicas embedded in wood, capped with copper - about tennis racket sized. Only two known in the US. Now on display at Gilcrease Museum in Oklahoma.
Shark tooth club artifact found at Cahokia Mound 34
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Key facts
- A shark's tooth blade was found at Cahokia in mound 34 by Gregory Perino in 1953
- The club had imitation sharks teeth made from limestone (not real shark teeth) embedded in maple wood
- The club was capped with copper and was about the size of a tennis racket
- In 2007, additional pieces including broken sharks teeth were recovered from Perino's backfill
- The artifact is currently on display at the Gil Museum in Oklahoma
- This is the only one found in the United States
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Cahokia Shark Teeth Related Artifacts Page 2 - Lithic Casting Lablithiccastinglab.com
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Shark's tooth club - PaleoPlanet - Tapatalktapatalk.com
Here's a reconstruction of one of the shark's tooth clubs, found at Cahokia. The original club had 5 great white shark's teeth and 8 flint ...
Mound 34 – Cahokia Mounds State Historic Sitecahokiamounds.org
In 1956, the Thomas Gilcrease Foundation of Tulsa, Oklahoma, carried out a project under the direction of a local amateur, Gregory Perino.
"cahokia mounds" shark's tooth clubsflintknapper.com
In 1948, Gregory Perino unearthed a shark's tooth club in the Ramey field at Cahokia Mounds. The original club was not intact but had been hit by the plow.
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