A Study of Diagnostic and Nondiagnostic Artifacts from the Lower Little Hocking River Valley in Southeast Ohio
A Study of Diagnostic and Nondiagnostic Artifacts from the Lower Little Hocking River Valley in Southeast Ohio
By
Jack H. Ray and R. Glenn Ray
The Little Hocking River is a little-known short tributary of the Ohio River located in the southwest portion of Washington County in southeastern Ohio (Figure 1). Whereas considerable archaeological research has been conducted along the Ohio River (Collins 1979; Lepper 1994; Smith 1986), in the neighboring valleys of the Muskingum River (Carskadden and Morton 2018; Morton and Carskadden 1975) and the Hocking River (Abrams and Freter 2005a; Murphy 1989) in Ohio, and in the Kanawha River valley in West Virginia (Brashler et al. 1994; Broyles 1966, 1971), archaeological investigations in the Little Hocking River valley have been very limited. Because so little is known about the prehistoric record in the Little Hocking River valley, a sizeable collection of nondiagnostic and diagnostic artifacts obtained primarily from the lower portion of the valley was analyzed and is reported here. This collection was amassed by R. Glenn Ray over a period of nearly two decades.
