Maheffy Cache

MAHEFFY CACHE:  In 2008 a landscaping crew, on the property of a Boulder, Colorado,  resident uncovered a collection of stone tools in a hole the size of a shoe box.  Archaeologists confirmed this was a Clovis-Age cache, dated around 13,000 years old, consisting of over 80 stone implements.  It consisted of an assortment of platters, bifacial knives, small blades, flakes, and one resembling a double bitted axe.  The key to dating the assemblage was protein residues discovered on several of the tools that were used to butcher extinct camels and horses, bear, and sheep.  The stone was quarried, and carried in, from sites in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.  This cache is significant because there have been so few recovered and studied, in such pristine condition.