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Sometimes the smallest artifact recovered from a site can have a good potential for helping Archeologists understand the activities at the site. Take, for example, this small obsidian fragment, broken off of either a biface or an arrow point. There is no natural source of obsidian in Stevens County, so it was likely traded from a volcanic source such as the Yellowstone region of Wyoming or Taos, New Mexico. 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: 1000-1800 CE
Item Number: 315217
Call Number: 14SV403 2012.D.3
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 315217
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Obsidian
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures
Places - Counties - Stevens
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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