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This small burned corn cob was recovered from excavations during the 1978 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Tobias site in Rice County. The burned cob is from a 10 row corn ear. The Tobias site is a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village that had dense artifact deposits, house remains, and numerous deep trash-filled storage pits. The site is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: 1400-1700 CE
Item Number: 443785
Call Number: 14RC8-7530
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 443785
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Home and Family - Daily life - Gardening
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Plant
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Tobias
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - Rice
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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