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This heavy-duty tool, a groundstone maul, was pecked and smoothed into its final shape. The artifact was used as a hammer. The groove around the middle of the maul would have been used to haft it onto a handle. The maul was donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1925.
Date: Unknown
Item Number: 442664
Call Number: 25.43 Brower donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 442664
Collections - Archeology
Environment - Water - Rivers
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Maul
People - American Indians
Places - Rivers - Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
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