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In 2013 Robert Yarmer donated 292 lithic artifacts that had been cached at a site in Barton County. A cache is a group of items stored or hidden for future use, for trade, or some other significance we today do not know. It is possible the cache dates to the Late Ceramic period. This cache contained bifaces, modified flakes, scrapers, knives, cores, and debitage. Predominately they were made of Permian chert, though a few were made of Smoky Hill silicified chalk, which outcrops in western Kansas. The lithic pieces shown here are a sampling of the large cache.
Date: Unknown
Item Number: 443802
Call Number: 14BT479 2013.D Yarmer donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 443802
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Biface
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Core
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Debitage
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Knife
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Modified Flake
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Scraper
Places - Counties - Barton
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
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