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This bone tool was recovered during excavations at the 1986 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Thompson site in Rice County. It is unknown if this decorated bone had a functional or decorative use. The bone is incised with a series of 12 opposed diagonals. One end has been cut and beveled, while the other has been cut and snapped. The site, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 443270
Call Number: 14RC9-586-81
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 443270
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Thompson
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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