A cache of chert hoes on a Julien site house floor - storage of needed raw materials and tools or evidence of rural wealth?

Milner, G. R. 1984. The Julien Site. American Bottom Archaeology, FAI-270 Site Reports, Vol. 7. University of Illinois Press, Urbana. Fig. 16, p.35

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