Museum display case for Wertz Collection, showcasing pottery and axes, celts, adzes, and other stone tools.

ID: 655 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: Vaughn Wascovich ~ Date: 2022

This file appears in: "Art of the Ancients" Exhibition at the Southern Ohio Museum

Museum display case for Wertz Collection, showcasing pottery and axes, celts, adzes, and other stone tools.

This file appears in: "Art of the Ancients" Exhibition at the Southern Ohio Museum

"Art of the Ancients" Exhibition at the Southern Ohio Museum

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

Upon entering the "Art of the Ancients" exhibition an etched glass panel orients visitors to the prehistory of the Adena and Hopewell peoples who built the mounds, rock cairns, parallel embankments, and other earthworks of the Portsmouth…