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- Title
THE CLEAR CREEK CACHE, UNION COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
- Authors
BUTLER, BRIAN M.; MCFARLAND, JOE; DONAKER, TOBIAS
- Abstract
In 1991, a collection of 140 large chert pieces and a small amount of associated debitage were recovered from a collapsed creek bank in the Kaolin chert source area in Union County, Illinois. These pieces are unusual in that they are culls and rejects from a series of lithic reduction stages and are not directly associated with the workshop that produced them. The find provides a rare look at the complex interplay of raw material selection, conservation, and tool production at a major lithic extraction and manufacturing complex. Their caching in a separate location indicates the knappers were saving the raw material for future use for other products or perhaps for trade material. The deposit is not definitively dated but is thought to be Mississippian.
- Subjects
UNION County (Ill.); ILLINOIS; CHERT; SEDIMENTARY rocks; RAW materials
- Publication
Illinois Archaeology: Journal of the Illinois Archaeology Survey, 2010, Vol 22, Issue 2, p508
- ISSN
1050-8244
- Publication type
Article