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This Sioux quartzite abrader was excavated at the Paint Creek village in McPherson County. Archeologists call abraders groundstone tools as they are shaped by grinding. This abrader has been used to sharpen another tool, such as a bone needle or awl. The Paint Creek site is what archeologists call part of the Little River Focus of the Great Bend Aspect (ancestral Wichita), whose people practiced fishing, hunting, gathering, and agriculture.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 455154
Call Number: 14MP1-0-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 455154
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
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 - Quartzite
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Paint Creek
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - McPherson
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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