. The Antiquarian [serial]. ne found outside that limit. The blades found in caches were perhapsmade at the quarries and transported to thevillages, there to be stored or buried inmoist earth, which kept them in a workablecondition, where they could be easily ob-tained and worked up into the various spe-cialized forms as such implements were re-quired for use, or they may sometimes havebeen used as they were without specializa-tion. The caching may have been accompaniedby ceremony and some of the depositsmay have been made purely for ceremonialpurposes; but it is doubtful if this was thecase w
. The Antiquarian [serial]. ne found outside that limit. The blades found in caches were perhapsmade at the quarries and transported to thevillages, there to be stored or buried inmoist earth, which kept them in a workablecondition, where they could be easily ob-tained and worked up into the various spe-cialized forms as such implements were re-quired for use, or they may sometimes havebeen used as they were without specializa-tion. The caching may have been accompaniedby ceremony and some of the depositsmay have been made purely for ceremonialpurposes; but it is doubtful if this was thecase with many of them. The cache formsare often found on the adjacent village sitesand the deposits in the midst of workshopswhere the same material was used. Two ofthe caches, the eighth and fourteenth, werefound in moist earth. The transportation might have been bycanoe in this locality, since all the cachesas yet found have been near navigablewater; and the material of which the bladesfrom the majority of the caches were made. THE ANTIQUARIAN. 31 is thought to be from the chert nodules fromthe limestone of the sub-carboniferousseries, which outcrops in a circular line,along the shore of Saginaw bay near BayPort, through the headwaters of the Cassand Shiawassee rivers, at Jackson, etc. Thisoutcrop is deeply covered by glacial driftthroughout much of its extent. Where therivers cut through the glacial debris andalong the bay shore the rock could be read-ily quarried, and all of these places are inwater communication with most of the vil-lage sites of the valley. The blades fromeight of the caches were of a material closelyresembling the chert nodules of this series. For convenience the caches have beennamed, and thus associated with the localitywhere they were found or with the discov-erer. It has been impossible to secure com-plete data regarding some of the caches. First—Golson Cache No. 1 (124) consist-ed of 83 pieces, which were found in an ir-regular pile about four feet bel
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