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These nine scrapers were recovered from the surface of the Lindeman site in Saline County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. The scrapers may have been hafted onto a handle and used to scrape hides. They would have required periodic resharpening. The scrapers in the top and bottom rows are all made of Permian chert. The scraper on the left in the middle row has been heat-treated prior to completion to make the Permian chert easier to knap. Also in the middle row are scrapers made of Smoky Hill silicified chalk (middle), which outcrops in western Kansas and Alibates agatized dolomite (right), which outcrops in the Canadian River valley in the Texas Panhandle. The site was occupied periodically from the Early Ceramic period through the Late Ceramic period. During one of these occupations there may have been at least two houses on the site.
Date: 1-1800 CE
Item Number: 443870
Call Number: 14SA412 2017.A Reed donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 443870
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Scraper
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Alibates
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Permian Chert
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Smoky Hill Jasper
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Saline
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
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