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Though this dart point was collected from a multicomponent site in McPherson County with occupations in the Middle and Late Ceramic periods, this artifact may have come from an earlier time period. The point was donated in 2004 and is made of basalt, a dark-colored fine-grained igneous rock. Dart points would be mounted to the dart foreshaft, which would in turn be connected to the dart shaft. The assembled dart would then be thrown with an atlatl (spearthrower).
Date: 1000-1800 CE
Item Number: 447348
Call Number: 14MP311 2004.E.170 Jaderborg donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447348
Collections - Archeology
Environment - Geology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point - Stemmed - Expanding
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Basalt
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - McPherson
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
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