Fossil (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- 400 BC-AD 500 (Middle Woodland period)
- Culture/People
- probably Deptford (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Excavator
- Clarence Bloomfield Moore (C.B. Moore), Non-Indian, 1852-1936
- Previous owner
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
- Seller
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
- Collection History
- Excavated by archaeologist Clarence B. Moore (1852-1936) in 1896 or 1897; donated to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by C.B. Moore soon afterward; purchased by MAI from the Academy of Natural Sciences with other C.B. Moore collection materials in 1929.
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- Place
- Middle Settlement Mound C, Ossabaw Island; Chatham County; Georgia; USA
- Archipelago
- Georgia Coastal Islands
- Island Name
- Ossabaw Island
- See related items
- Deptford (archaeological culture)
- Materials: Raw
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 17/2675
- Barcode
- 172675.000
- Object Type
- Materials: Raw
- Object Name
- Fossil (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Animal bone
- Techniques
- Unmodified
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_185080