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This rim sherd from a large jar was recovered during excavations at the 1986 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Thompson site in Rice County. The rim sherd has grit temper with some charcoal inclusions, a smooth surface treatment and impressed punctates on the lip. The site, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village occupied during the Late Ceramic Period.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 443448
Call Number: 14RC9
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 443448
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ceramic
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Thompson
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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