Eaton Ground Stone

Part of: Eaton

Images of ground stone objects from the Eaton site.

Site Name Keywords
Eaton

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures

Culture Keywords
Archaic • Early Archaic • Middle Archaic • Late Archaic • Woodland • PaleoIndian • Historic

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

Material Types
Ground Stone • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Glass • Human Remains • chunkey

Temporal Keywords
Multi-component

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • New York (State / Territory) • Erie County (County) • Western New York • North America (Continent) • USA (Country)

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-7 of 7)

  • Bi-pitted Stone (2010)
    IMAGE William Engelbrecht.

    This stone is 13 cm x 11 cm x 4.2 cm (max. dimensions) and is pitted on both sides.

  • Eaton Stone Disk (2017)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text William Engelbrecht.

    Symmetrical ground stone disk.

  • Gorget, Feature 50 (1995)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: William Engelbrecht

    A two hole banded slate gorget found in Feature 50 along with Iroquoian materials.

  • Grinding Stones (2010)
    IMAGE William Engelbrecht.

    Two grinding stones (metates)

  • Ground Stone Distribution (2012)
    IMAGE William Engelbrecht.

    Ground stone was tabulated by inferred function, not morphology. Grinding = grinding slabs and handstones (metates and manos) Pounding = hammerstones, mortars, pestles, anvils Chopping = celts, adzes Smoothing/sharpening = whetstones, abraders

  • Pit with a celt (2011)
    IMAGE William Engelbrecht.

    This pit feture was located inside a longhouse, along the side, probably under a bunk line. It contained a celt in the bottom, visible in this slide.

  • Stone Pipe Bowl (2011)
    IMAGE William Engelbrecht.

    Multiple Views of Stone Pipe Bowl. The material is likely steatite. Three faint converging lines on the bottom resemble a bird's foot print.