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These four Fresno arrow points were recovered from excavations at the Sharps Creek site during excavations by Kansas Historical Society Archeologists in 1968 and during the 1993 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school. Archeologists identify Fresno points as being unnotched with a triangular shape. The Sharps Creek site is a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village site in McPherson County.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 443607
Call Number: 14MP408 Area 681 X20; 14MP408-2131-8; -2469-1; 3326-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 443607
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point - Triangular
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Sharps Creek
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - McPherson
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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