By Charla Wurm-Adams
cwurm@wbcowqel.com
Local collectors had the opportunity to put their own inventories of Indian arrowheads and artifacts on display alongside those from Fort Ancient. The Ohio History Connection loaned a display from its Fort Ancient culture collection for the Crawford Park District’s Annual Arrowhead Day on Saturday.
“Today is our annual Arrowhead Day where local collectors brought in their local collections that they found, a lot of them in Crawford County but (also) throughout Ohio,” Park District Natrualist Josh Dyer said. “Also new this year we have a display from the Ford Ancient Culture. It’s a great display of just the daily life of prehistoric peoples.”
According to Dyer the Fort Ancient pieces are a diverse collection. They range from perforating tools that they would have used from the various bones of mammals to fleshing knives or beamers that they would use to remove the flesh from skin’s, to drills to some pottery to game pieces, necklaces, whistles and flutes. Dyer called it an “excellent display.”
The Fort Ancient collection will be on display at the Nature Center until March 28.
Dyer also explained that many of the local collections consisted of what amateur archeologists had found themselves in Crawford County. But some of the collections, such as those from the Rothhaar brothers and Tom Wolfe, also included artifacts that they had been able to purchase.
Jeremy Snyder is a flint-knapper and was at the Nature Center. Snyder was busy during the day making arrowheads out of flint.