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Shown are 11 scrapers that were recovered from the El Cuartelejo site in Scott County. The scrapers were made of a variety of cherts including Smoky Hill silicified chalk from western Kansas and Alibates agatized dolomite from the Canadian River valley in Texas. The scrapers may have been hafted onto a handle and used to scrape hides. They would have required periodic resharpening. The site, unique in Kansas, is the location of a seven room pueblo occupied by refugees from the Taos and Picuris pueblos in New Mexico in addition to Dismal River aspect groups (Apache). El Cuartelejo, also called the Scott County Pueblo, has been excavated and studied by many archeologists since 1898. These scrapers were recovered during the 1976 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school.
Date: 1650-1750 CE
Item Number: 446073
Call Number: 14SC1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 446073
Collections - Archeology
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 - Smoky Hill Jasper
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - El Cuartelejo
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Dismal River
People - American Indians - Tribes - Apache
Places - Counties - Scott
Places - Historic sites - El Quartelejo
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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