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This Munkers Creek-like axe was collected from Wabaunsee County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2018. The Munkers Creek phase describes a stone tool technology restricted primarily to the Flint Hills. During this time most of North America was in a prolonged drought so severe that Archeologists thought people left the Plains. Munkers Creek artifacts show that people stayed, but they may have chosen their habitats carefully. Munkers Creek axes, like this one, were used for felling trees and woodworking.
Date: 4250-2850 BCE
Item Number: 449559
Call Number: 14WB 2018.B.28 Menhusen donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 449559
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Axe
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Permian Chert
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Materials - Woodworking
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Munkers Creek
Places - Counties - Wabaunsee
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Archaic, 7000 BCE - 1 CE
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