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These two hammerstones were recovered during the 1997 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Garrett Site in Trego County. The artifacts are made of quartz and were used as hammers during flintknapping and other tasks. The battered surfaces show the contact points with what was hammered.
Date: 2000 BCE-1000 CE
Item Number: 472637
Call Number: 14TO327-0-16 & 14TO327-0-17
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 472637
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Hammerstone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Quartzite
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Trego
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Archaic, 7000 BCE - 1 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Early Ceramic, 1 - 1000 CE
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