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This flintknapping tool, an antler billet, was recovered from the Shrope village site in Cowley County. The billet was made from the base of an antler and was used like a hammer to remove flakes from chert during flintknapping. The Shrope site, a large Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village, was excavated by Kansas Historical Society archeologists and crew in 1995. Forty-ne archeological features, such as storage pits, hearths, and post molds, were uncovered at the site.
Date: 1400-1725 CE
Item Number: 474315
Call Number: 14CO331-238-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 474315
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Horn
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Billet
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Counties - Cowley
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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