Prehistoric Native American Ground / Grooved Stone Tool - Net / Fishing Weight or Sinker, East Tennessee.

Ground stone artifact in the form of a net weight or Atlatl weight.

Location: Little River, Townsend, Tuckaleechee Cove Area, Tennessee.

Approx. Size: 2.5" H x 2.5" W.

Provenance: From a prominent Native American Collection, Townsend, Tennessee.

References: Shannon D. Koerner & Lynne P. Sullivan, THE MISSISSIPPIAN PERIOD OCCUPATION OF TUCKALEECHEE COVE, BLOUNT COUNTY, TENNESSEE, Boyce Driskell, Principal Investigator and Series Editor Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, The University of Tennessee, April 2013 (Report Prepared for the Federal Highway Administration and the Tennessee Department of Transportation Nashville, Tennessee), See CHAPTER 5: STONE IMPLEMENTS AND OTHER ARTIFACTS, Boyce Driskell, Jeremy Sweat, Katherine McMillan Barry, Stephen Carmody, Phyllis Rigney, and Erik Johanson, pgs 152f. Table 36. Attributes for Ground Stone Implements by Mississippian Context, p. 154. Table 37. Attributes for Ground Stone Tools and Artifacts by Function, p. 155-6.