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These three projectile points were collected from an Archaic period kill site in Dickinson County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2016. All three projectile points are made of Florence chert that outcrops in the Flint Hills of Kansas and Oklahoma. Two of the points have expanding stems and the third has a contracting stem. 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: 7000-1 BCE
Item Number: 457823
Call Number: 14DN404 2016.D Ernst donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 457823
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point - Stemmed - Contracting
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point - Stemmed - Expanding
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Permian Chert
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Dickinson
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Archaic, 7000 BCE - 1 CE
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