TheDuck River cache is thearchaeological collection of 46Mississippian cultureartifacts discovered by a worker on at theLink Farm site inMiddle Tennessee in December 1894.[1]
The cache has been called "perhaps the most spectacular single collection of prehistoric Native American art ever discovered in the eastern United States".[2] "Nearly four dozen ceremonial stone knives, daggers, swords, maces, and other striking examples of prehistoric stonework".[2] The ceremonial objects are made fromDover chert, a type offlint found exclusively in the nearbyDover, Tennessee area.[3]
A few months later in March 1895 the same but slightly deeper location was also the site of the discovery of a paired male and female set ofMississippian sandstone statues nicknamed "Adam" and "Eve". The male statue is now at theMetropolitan Museum of Art and the female statue has been lost. The site is preserved as part of theJohnsonville State Historic Park.[4][5]
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