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This large Archaic dart point is 11.3cm long and 5.4cm wide. It was collected from Elk County and donated in 1959 to the Kansas Historical Society. The dart point has a parallel stem. After knapping, the dart point was mounted to a dart fore shaft, and then thrown with an atlatl.
Date: 8000 BPE-2000 BPE
Item Number: 446154
Call Number: 14EK 59.188.495 Hamilton Shaffer donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 446154
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point - Stemmed
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Elk
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10,000 BCE - 1820 CE - Archaic (7000 BCE - 1 CE)
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