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These three images from slides show just a few of the many petroglyphs carved into a series of bluff faces at the Ward site in Ellsworth County. The site includes several anthropomorphic (shamanistic) glyphs, many quadrupeds (four-legged) glyphs, a single shield motif (heavily defaced), geometric glyphs, "turkey tracks" and tool sharpening grooves, in addition to modern graffiti. The petroglyph site is also a habitation site, possibly recording multiple occupations of Kansas City Hopewellian and Great Bend aspect peoples.
Date: 1979
Item Number: 439854
Call Number: 14EW17-2; -4; -6; -7
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 439854
Collections - Archeology
Date - 1970s - 1979
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Kansas City Hopewell
Places - Counties - Ellsworth
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
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