This is the conclusion to my personal collection until I find more
out there in the fields. At top left we start with a pretty damaged
Hardin but it is followed by one beautiful ovate knife/scraper, and next
to that we have a Thebes minus one barb, darn! I saw just a portion
of the base, the notch
and the barb sticking out of a big hunk of dirt and pleaded desperately
while I carefully removed the artifact encased in the hard clay-like chunk.....I
guess I didn’t plead hard enough! Second row starts with a heavily
resharpened Thebes, an unknown, small scraper, a Raddatz and another untyped
point. The third row contains artifacts from the Kirk cluster and
the fourth row starts with a McWhinney Heavy Stemmed followed by two Matanzas,
a blunt and another Kirk. The bottom
row starts with three arrowheads, a rather unique uniface tool (I think)
and ends with a Gibson.
I would like to once again thank everyone involved in bringing this
subject to light and I will start out with Robert Peterson, better
known as “Pete” to his friends. I clicked on his name using the AACA
site and that started the journey. Turned out his wife Mary was originally
from Peotone...
such a small world, and Pete has even been hunting here. Then
came John Duncan, who has taken much time teaching and corresponding, and
his wife Terry who I have had the pleasure of meeting. I will also
be indebted to ‘Stone’ ......probably forever, not only for taking the
time to go over all these artifacts, as did John Duncan, but also for baiting
that hook and removing the fish. Chuck Wiggins has been a tremendous help
also and he deserves a big thanks. Claude Werner, Norm Jones, Jeff Abbas,
John Crowley, Randall Kimbrell, Jerry Sherman, Wendy Harris, John Walthall,
Kendal Ozment, Carol Henrichs and Dean Olsen have all helped me, each in
their own way, and I would like to express my heartfelt thanks. My
husband, Roger, who has put up with the many hours involved in this project,
and taken me to John’s Peotone Garden Restaurant many, many nights, a big
thanks to him.....and to John...........his food is pretty good!
Last, but certainly not least, another thank-you to ‘Stone’, and to Bob
Wishoff, for their time and effort in putting these issues before all of
you, and for caring.....it has taken many hours of their time. I
would like to thank all the people that have so generously shared their
collections thus far and those that will be sharing theirs in the future.
Thanks again, to all of you.
And, thanks, Uncle Robert, you taught me to care about the past and
the stories the artifacts could tell, I shall always be indebted
to you for this.
Margo Hupe
At top-left is a hard-worked and battered Hardin Blade, followed by a very
nice ovate knife/scraper, and then a Thebes Blade with one barb broken
off.
The second row, from the left, shows a heavily resharpened Thebes, a
small scraper, a Raddatz Point and an un-typed point.
Note the left-hand beveling of both Thebes and the Hardin—by resharpening
the blade unifacially, only a slight decrease in blade-width is achieved,
making for a blade that lasts longer, and remains strong since the thickness
is not affected by beveling.
The third row displays points of the Kirk Corner-notched cluster, and
date
to ca. 6000 BC. The fourth row, left, are shown a McWhinney Heavy Stemmed,
then two Matanzas points, an untyped blunt, and another Kirk Corner-notch.
The bottom row, from the left: Three small arrowheads, probably early
to middle Woodland cultures, followed by a unique uniface tool or ‘Exotic’—a
doodle-in-flint. The last point is typed as a Gibson.
“Exotics’, or doodles-in-flint, are rare. The specimen shown is quite
unusual in that the form is almost precisely identical to crudely made
‘reproduction-type arrowheads’ made by the hundreds of thousands today.
This specimen is a personal find from a site in Will County, IL, and is
well-patinated..
Stone Sweet
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