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This drill fragment was recovered in 1994 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists at a Middle Ceramic period Pratt complex village in Pratt County. Drills were used to bore holes in softer material than the drill itself, such as hides, shell, wood, or soft stone. The drill is made of Smoky Hill silicified chalk, a type of chert that outcrops in western Kansas and Nebraska.
Date: 1300-1500 CE
Item Number: 472461
Call Number: 14PT420-0-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 472461
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Drill
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Smoky Hill Jasper
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Pratt
Places - Counties - Pratt
Places - Other States - Nebraska
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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