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Gaitskill Stone Tablet
CRAI Corporate Logo
The CRAI corporate logo is adapted from a prehistoric design found on a
stone tablet recovered from the Gaitskill Mound, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.
This tablet, which was recovered from the mound circa 1900, was first described
by William S. Webb and
W.D Funkhouser in 1932. Tablets such as these are associated with the
Adena cultural complex, which was located along the Ohio River valley during
the early Middle Woodland
time period (ca. 500 B.C - A.D. 200). This cultural complex is partly
defined by complex mortuary behaviors which included burial mounds. An assemblage
of artifacts were typically
deposited in the burials, including engraved stone tablets such as this
one.
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Above photograph: from William S. Webb (1940) The Wright
Mounds, Sites 6 and 7, Montgomery County, Kentucky. Figure 66, page 122. Reports in
Anthropology, Volume V, Number 1. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University
of Kentucky, Lexington.
Left photograph: Gaitskill Mound, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. |
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