CAST
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Approximately two thousand years ago, in what is now Tazewell County,
Illinois, an artisan made this Hopewell point to include in a cache. It's
generally believed by all who have studied the points in this cache that whoever made them
had developed his flintknapping skill to the highest level attainable for his
time. Dr. W. H. Holmes was the head curator of Anthropology
at the Smithsonian Institution when the Mackinaw-Aldrich cache was found in 1916. He remarked
that they were "the best examples of chipped flint work ever found in
America." |