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The Munkers Creek phase describes a stone tool technology restricted primarily to the Flint Hills. During this time most of North America was in a prolonged drought so severe that Archeologists thought people left the Plains. Munkers Creek artifacts show that people stayed, but they may have chosen their habitats carefully. Munkers Creek bifaces, like these from the William Young site in Morris County, could have been used as cutting tools, or, with more work, turned into specific tools.
Date: 4250-2850 BCE
Item Number: 309664
Call Number: 14MO304-208 Plate 22, KSHS Antropological Series No. 10
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 309664
Collections - Archeology
Date - 11,500 BCE - 1 CE - 7000 BCE - 1 CE
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Biface
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - William Young
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Munkers Creek
Places - Counties - Morris
Places - Regions - Flint Hills
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Archaic, 7000 BCE - 1 CE
Type of Material - Photographs
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