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These three obsidian artifacts, one modified flake and two flakes, were recovered from the Majors site in Rice County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1982. There is no natural source of obsidian in Rice County, so it was likely traded from a volcanic source such as the Yellowstone region of Wyoming or Taos, New Mexico. The Majors site was a Great Bend aspect, Little River focus (ancestral Wichita) site that was occupied during the late 17th century based on southwestern pottery styles. Archeologists are interested in what the artifacts, even the smallest of artifacts, can tell about how people used resources, moved across their landscapes and interacted with other groups.
Date: 1500-1700 CE
Item Number: 447935
Call Number: 14RC2 1982.H Parish donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447935
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Date - 1600-1699
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Debitage
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Modified Flake
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Obsidian
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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