Click to enlarge	I am submitting an odd shaped gorget I acquired several years ago from a collector in Northeast Georgia. This artifact is made from stone, perhaps soapstone, and is very similar in style to some pottery pieces on display at the Kolomoki Mounds State Park Museum. It is drilled three times, measures 2 inches in length, and is obviously heavily notched. I did some research and discovered that gear shaped gorgets are also encountered in the southwest United States. I recently allowed Rodney Peck to acquire this gorget from me for his collection. Don Schultz, Athens, Georgia Collection of Rodney Peck, Kannapolis, North Carolina
Click to enlarge	and seven Buffalo River chert points. Quite a few of these kind of caches have been found in Middle Tennessee over the past twenty years. Many have identical materials, size and form. While they have been associated with the Benton Culture in the past, the owner has been informed that they could possibly be closer to the Cypress Creek - Big Slough technologies of the Middle Archaic period. There is some ground breaking research going on in this area that perhaps will be reported in this journal in the future. The points range from 4 inches to 5 7/8 inches in length, with the six largest ones being from 5 to 5 7/8 inches. They average in width from 1 1/2 to 2 1/16 inches. All are undamged and exhibit extremely fine craftsmanship in their manufacture. Collection of Frank Robison, Hernando, Mississippi
Click to enlarge	Two exceptional tools made from a glossy white Kaolin flint. The celt on the left and adz on the right were found in July 2010. They were discovered laying side by side by Jamie Burger, in a field several miles west of Cahokia Mounds across the river from St. Louis, near the town of Brooklyn, Illinois. The adz measures seven inches in length. Collection of Jamie Burger, Lebanon, Illinois
Click to enlarge	An Adena blocked end tube pipe made from a dark green pipestone. It is highly polished, undamaged and very well made. It measures 4 ¾ inches in length and is a fraction more than 1 inch in width. It was found in Trumbull County, Ohio. Donald R. Gehlbach in his book Ohio’s Prehistoric Pipes, refers to this style as trumpet shaped. He believes it to be a refined form of earlier trumpet and cigar shaped styles, which are more crude in form. This pipe dates to the late Adena period (1 AD to 300 AD). The material, polish, size and form would have made this a special pipe probably utilized for very select occasions. Shown in inset are the ends of the pipe. In some similar pipes, a small stone has been found inside that would have acted to filter the substance smoked. Pipes of this quality are rare in the prehistoric record. Collection of Billie M. Ford, Spencerville, Ohio