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These four abrader fragments were recovered during excavations by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at the Nulik site in Sumner County. Archeologists call these groundstone tools as they are shaped by grinding. The sandstone abraders could be used as pairs, one on each side, to smooth a wood shaft. The excavations revealed a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) house and associated midden (refuse heap or mound).
Date: 1000-1500 CE
Item Number: 449056
Call Number: 14SR305 Features 1 & 13
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 449056
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Abrader
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Sandstone
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Sumner
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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