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Digging tools, such as this digging stick tip, are evidence of practicing horticulture. The bison tibia digging stick tip was recovered from a Middle Ceramic period archeological site in Pratt County that was attributed to Pratt Complex people. The Pratt Complex is poorly understood. This makes diagnostic artifacts such as this digging stick tip important to our understanding of earlier life styles.
Date: 1300-1500 CE
Item Number: 472374
Call Number: 14PT304-2-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 472374
Agriculture - Agricultural methods and practices
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Digging Stick Tip
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Pratt
Places - Counties - Pratt
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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