
Suzanne Justice is pictured at the new permanent Pleistocene exhibit at the Black Laboratory of Archaeology at IUB which contains artifacts never seen before by the public; most were collected and donated by the late Frederick W. (Billy) Ellerbusch, an archaeological hobbyist who became fascinated with the prehistoric culture of Indiana as a schoolboy. He later worked at many site excavations in southern Indiana, including Yankeetown, Crib Mound and Angel Mounds, and he allowed an IU grad student to excavate one of the Mississippian sites on his family’s property in Warrick County. In 1959-60, he helped a team of IU researchers excavate the Cox’s Creek mastodon site in Posey County. While much of the material collected from the site was donated to the Evansville Museum of Art and Science, the mastodon bones in the new exhibit were collected by Ellerbusch, who monitored the Cox’s Creek site for more than 30 years until erosion caused much of the site to be destroyed.
| The Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology at IU Bloomington has opened a new exhibit which presents the people and animals that inhabited Indiana at the end of the last Ice Age—approximately 10,000 years ago. Highlights of the exhibit, “Pleistocene Environment and Paleoindian Culture of Indiana,” include spearpoints and tools made by Paleoindian people, the jaws from an Ice Age mastodon and a mammoth tusk.
The project has been funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund, administered by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology.
The exhibit, in the main lobby of the Black Lab, at 423 N. Fess Ave. in Bloomington, is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more on the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, go to:
http://www.gbl.indiana.edu/
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