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This large celt was recovered from a multicomponent camp site in Saline County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2017. Archeologists use the word multicomponent to indicate that a site has been occupied intermittently throughout time. This woodworking tool would have been manufactured by grinding or pecking it into a general shape, followed by polishing. It would have been hafted onto a handle and required periodic resharpening.
Date: 8000 BCE-1000 CE
Item Number: 446190
Call Number: 14SA431 2017.A.1659 Reed donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 446190
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Celt
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Saline
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
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