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This Paleoindian projectile point base was collected from Dickinson County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1917. It is made of Smoky Hill silicified chalk, a good quality knapping material that is exposed in linear beds in northwestern Kansas and western Nebraska. This spear point has ground edges at the base to protect the hafting. Paleoindian people traveled in small groups, hunting large game, including now extinct bison. Stone tools help reveal how these people lived and traveled, and how they differed from other groups.
Date: 11000-7000 BCE
Item Number: 457633
Call Number: 14DN 17.12.94 Lyon donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 457633
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Smoky Hill Jasper
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Dickinson
Places - Other States - Nebraska
Places - Regions - Northwest Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Paleoindian, >7000 BCE
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