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This biface was recovered from the Thompson Gardens site in Cowley County. A biface could have been used as a cutting tool or, with more work, turned into specific tools. It is made of local Florence chert from the Flint Hills region. It weighs over 2.5 pounds and is 10.25" long and 4.25" wide. The site was a large Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village. Kansas Historical Society archeologists and crew excavated there during a salvage archeological investigation in 1995.
Date: 1400-1725 CE
Item Number: 474417
Call Number: 14CO1509-60-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 474417
Collections - Archeology
Environment - Geology - Flint Hills
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Biface
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Florence
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Counties - Cowley
Places - Regions - Flint Hills
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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