Bat Creek Tablet

Object Details

Collector

John W. Emmert

Donor Name

Bureau Of American Ethnology

Site Name

Tipton Mound 3

The so-called "Bat Creek Stone." A COPY (CAST) WAS MADE OF THIS OBJECT- SEE CATALOG # A134902A.

Selected references: Thomas, Cyrus. 1894. Bureau of [American] Ethnology Annual Report for 1890-1891. 12: fig. 273. Mainfort, Robert C., Jr., and Mary L. Kwas, 1991, "The Bat Creek Stone: Judeans in Tennessee?," Tennessee Anthropologist 16(1):1-19. Mainfort, Robert C., Jr., and Mary L. Kwas, 1993, "The Bat Creek Fraud: A Final Statement," Tennessee Anthropologist 18(2):87-93. McCarter, P. Kyle, Jr., 1993, "Let's Be Serious About the Bat Creek Stone," Biblical Archaeology Review 19(4):54-55, 83. Mainfort, Robert C., Jr., and Mary L. Kwas, 1993, "Archaeologists Remain Unconvinced, Biblical Archaeology Review 19(6):18, 76. Mainfort, Robert C., Jr., and Mary L. Kwas, 2004, "The Bat Creek Stone Revisited: A Fraud Exposed," American Antiquity 69(4):761-9.

Record Last Modified

26 Apr 2024

Specimen Count

1

Accession Date

9 Feb 1891

Accession Number

024012

USNM Number

A134902-0

Object Type

Tablet

Place

Loudon County, Tennessee, United States, North America

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Topic

Archaeology

Record ID

nmnhanthropology_8013771

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/31ea23daf-3d5c-4ba4-92da-d07e6e8cc559