A Meadowood Cache from Chaffee, New York	by Chris Cramer
Central States Archaeological Societies 2022 July Journal	Red Creek, New York

This is an excerpt from "A Meadowood Cache from Chaffee, New York". Read the complete column in the Central States Archaeological Societies 2022 July Journal which can be purchased on-line after March 2023 The Meadow cache discovered in the 1960s in Chaffee, New York. Meadowood Cache Blades are bi-faced, unnotched, leaf-shaped artifacts renowned for their fine craftsmanship. Called “masterful” by Ritchie, they are almost always made from high quality Onondaga chert that was taken from primary outcropping sources in western New York and Canada. These cache blades average 46 mm by 24 mm, and weigh on average only 5 grams. They are strikingly thin: less than 5 mm. Dating from Transitional Archaic to Early Woodland periods, Meadowood Cache Blades have been found in groups as large as 250, with unconfirmed reports of even larger finds. One researcher states that at least 5 cache sites contained 200 or more. [Granger, 1981:72] Approximately 8,059 specimens from 106 locations have been...   Read the complete column in the Central States Archaeological Societies 2022 July Journal which can be purchased on-line after March 2023