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Munkers Creek gouges, like these from the William Young site in Morris County, were likely used to modify wood and bone. Gouges are a distinctive and diagnostic tool for Munkers Creek phase collections and have a broad base with triangular to parallel sided shape. The Munkers Creek phase describes a stone tool technology restricted primarily to the Flint Hills. During this time most of North America was in a prolonged drought so severe that some archeologists thought people left the Plains. Munkers Creek artifacts show that people stayed, but they had to adapt by using many different types of animals and plants for food in a less productive environment.
Date: 4250-2850 BCE
Item Number: 472472
Call Number: 14MO304-1864 & 14MO304-1866
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 472472
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Gouge
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Florence
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - William Young
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Munkers Creek
Places - Counties - Morris
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Archaic, 7000 BCE - 1 CE
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