Archaeological Association of South Central Kansas Monthly meetingTime 7:30 P. M. Thursday, April 13th Place: 209 Neff Hall, WSU Main Campus Speaker: Dr. Donald Blakeslee Wichita State UniversityThis is the story of a series of caches – finds of specimens that were purposefully left together in sites. We currently have examples of at least three very different kinds of caches in our collections. The rarest kind is a set of specimens created solely for ritual purposes. We have items from two such cache. One is a set of six large, thin Dickson points that probably dates to the very end of the Archaic period. The other religious cache consists of only two broken specimens, but their form gives away the fact that they were not utilitarian items. We also have several of the most common form of cache – sets of bifaces stored for future use. I will describe and show three of these, two of which are probably Early Ceramic in age and one of which may be Middle Archaic (Munkers Creek).The final form of cache is entirely different from the others. I will show one of the two that we have that appear to be women's caches. The one I will show is from the Paint Creek site of the Great Bend mosaic. It was found in MacPerson County, but the stone in the cache is from northeastern Oklahoma. Rather than being points as is the case with the first kind of cache, and rather than being bifaces, as is the case with the second kind of cache, these specimens are mostly flakes, along with a few recognizable tools. There is a good likelihood that this is a woman's cache.All AASCK meetings are open to the public. You do not have to be a member to attend, but we'll be happy to hit you up for a membership if you are interested.
