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This ceramic cooking pot is from an ancestral Wichita archeological site near Arkansas City, Kansas, the Larcom-Haggard site. It was excavated by Kansas Historical Society archeologists in advance of the construction of US 166. It is typical of early Wichita pots, which are distinct from most North American aboriginal pottery in having flat bottoms. Other characteristics include the inclusion of burned shell mixed with the clay to strengthen the pot and paired handles. This pot came from a trash-filled storage pit with a radiocarbon date of ca. 1568 CE. Pottery like this, along with the remains of grass thatched houses and a variety of distinctive stone and bone tools, are part of a set of characteristics that archeologists call the Great Bend aspect, which existed between 1400-1700 CE in central and south-central Kansas. A Great Bend aspect grass thatched house and associated artifacts types, including ceramic pots, are on exhibit in the Kansas Museum of History.
Date: ca. 1568 CE
Item Number: 226948
Call Number: Accession no. 14CO1-3201
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 226948
Collections - Archeology
Date - 1500-1599
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ceramic
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Vessel
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Ceramic
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Larcom-Haggard
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Cities and towns - Arkansas City
Places - Counties - Cowley
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
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