Tremper Mound Pipestone Answer Found, But Two More Questions Arise

Archaeologist William Mills found a treasure-trove of carved stone pipes in southern Ohio a century ago - buried almost 2,000 years earlier. The Native American site became famous as Tremper Mound. Mills said the pipes had been carved from local stone and that has been accepted to this day.  But a new analysis spanning nearly a decade tested the stone pipes and pipestone from quarries across the upper Midwest, and concluded that those who buried the pipes in Tremper Mound got most of their pipestone, and perhaps even the finished, carved pipes, from Illinois. read more

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