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These three bifaces were collected from an Archaic site in Cowley County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2013. Bifaces like these could have been used as a chopping tool or, with more work, turned into a specific tool. All are made of local cherts from the Flint Hills and the material has been carefully heated before manufacturing to improve the chert's knapping qualities. The style is similar to a type of tool archeologists call Munkers Creek bifaces. The site was associated with both Calf Creek (a distinctive dart point style that is generally found in eastern Kansas and states to the east and south during the late Paleoindian Period) and Munkers Creek (a stone tool technology restricted primarily to the Flint Hills from 4250 to 2850 BCE).
Date: 4250-2850 BCE
Item Number: 505597
Call Number: 14CO120 2013.A.986; .991 & .993
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 505597
Collections - Archeology
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 - Munkers Creek
Places - Counties - Cowley
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Archaic, 7000 BCE - 1 CE
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