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Bradley T. Lepper, curator at the Ohio Historical Society, considered the recent tool find and what makes ceremony -
"In the University of Colorado press release, [Robert] Yohe says the discovery of the protein residue caused the investigators to change their minds about the purpose of the cache.
Initially, they suspected it was a ritual deposit, but because some of the tools had been used, they decided it was a utilitarian cache. According to Bamforth, some ancient hunter buried the items, "fully expecting to come back at a later date and retrieve them."
It's certainly possible that the artifacts represent this kind of cache, but I think it's premature to discard the idea that the artifacts are the remains of an Ice Age ceremony. ...
[The Mahaffy cache] might have been a ceremonial offering rather than a cache that the original owner intended to reclaim. The artifacts with traces of blood upon their edges might have been used for ritual purposes rather than simple meal preparation. Or, for this particular ceremony, it might have been enough for the artifacts to have been like new.
Native Americans made similar kinds of offerings for spiritual reasons. It is fascinating to consider the possibility that such religious practices have their roots in America's Ice Age cultures."
For more, see Lepper's column in the Columbus Dispatch.
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