Bell County Museum Lithics Collection
Dublin Core
Title
Bell County Museum Lithics Collection
Subject
Cataloged information from the Frank W. Harlan collection of mostly Central Texas Native American projectile points and tools.
Description
Frank W. Harlan and his son Frank Logan Harlan, long time Bell County, Texas residents, collected Native American (Indian relics) from various unidentified sites for many years. Frank W. Harlan had an obvious strong idea of what items he felt were worthy of collecting as many of his objects would be significant to the archaeological record for specific point type identification. They did not collect these objects using any of the scientific methods that archaeologists would have used and likely caused quite extensive damage to most of their excavation sites. It is clear that most if not all of their collecting was done before N.A.G.P.R.A. was enacted. This does not change the fact that ultimately all of the collected items were looted from Native American archaeological sites with no provenience.
Creator
Giancarlo Panzani
Source
All of the data and images for this exhibit were collected PastPerfect Museum Collection Software and collated in MS Excel.
Publisher
https://historication.com/
Date
2013
Contributor
Frank W. Harlan
Frank Logan Harlan
Bell County Museum
http://www.bellcountymuseum.org
Giancarlo Panzani
www.historication.com
Rights
http://www.bellcountymuseum.org
Relation
Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians by Ellen Sue Turner and Thomas E. Hester, Golf Publishing 1999
Format
Excel
JPEG
Language
English
Type
Native American Archaeological Artifacts
Identifier
Projectile Points
Stone Tools
Archaeological Artifacts
Coverage
Central Texas
Paleolithic
Archaic
Prehistoric
Collection Items
Guadalupe Biface
This object is a light grey chert with cortex on the flaked side.
End and side scraper.
The tool is roughly made from a tan chert nodule and it still has cortex. There is a large amount of use wear and step fractures along the used edges.
End and Side Scraper
This object is made from a tan chert nodule and it still has cortex. There is use wear and step fractures along the 'used' edges.
Clear Fork Biface
This object is a tan chert unifacial scraper. It ranges from paleolithic to middle archaic due to its triangular and pyramidal shape. It has use wear on all three edges and no bulb of percussion.
End and Side Scraper
This object is a tan to light grey chert and is a uni-facially worked flake with minor use wear.
