Gallery - Artifacts
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Mississippian Plain bowl with notched lip. Donated to the research project by Glenn P. Harrell, who learned it had been excavated from the Prather site around 1950(?). This bowl can be used in future exhibits at the Falls of the Ohio State Park.

This jar was excavated at Prather site in the 1950s by Ace Soliday and donated to the Falls of the Ohio State Park. (Note: no large size image present)

Archaeologists hope to photograph and document other artifacts that were found at Prather and nearby Mississippian sites to build a body of comparative data. Contact Cheryl Munson (munsonc@indiana.edu or 812-855-0528) if you are interested in asissting the research project.

Reconstruction of jar from N1080, E920, in progress.
The jar has a strap handle which is welded to the vessel rim
and riveted to the shoulder.

Unusual incised jar rim sherd from the south flank of the Southwest Mound
(N960, E900; FS# 122). Distinct from Ft. Ancient guilloche designs and Ft.
Ancient jar form, but comparable in vessel shape and design motif to the
Cahokia type Ramey Incised. The design combines parallel arches and a
chevron. The shoulder is pronounced, and the lip is short and atypical,
both of which are atypical of Mississippian jars in the Prather
assemblage. Ramey Incised-like designs occur very rarely elsewhere in the
Ohio Valley, including the Mississippian site of Angel Mounds near
Evansville, and the Fort Ancient Turpi and State Line sites in Ohio.