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This maul was recovered from excavations during the 1977 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Tobias site in Rice County. This heavy-duty tool was pecked and smoothed into its final shape and then used as a hammer. The groove around the middle of the maul would have been used to haft it onto a handle. The Tobias site is a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village that had dense artifact deposits, house remains, and numerous deep trash-filled storage pits. The site is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: 1400-1700 CE
Item Number: 447246
Call Number: 14RC8-192-633
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447246
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Maul
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Tobias
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Materials
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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