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This chipped stone tool was collected from the surface of an archeological site in Chase County that may have had a Munkers Creek phase occupation. Like this possible axe or gouge, Munkers Creek artifacts can often have a chunky appearance with patches of crusty cortex present. 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 Archeologists thought people left the Plains. Munkers Creek artifacts show that people stayed, but they may have chosen their habitats carefully.
Date: 4250-2850 BCE
Item Number: 505660
Call Number: 14CS375-84 surface
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 505660
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Florence
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Munkers Creek
Places - Counties - Chase
Places - Regions - Flint Hills
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Archaic, 7000 BCE - 1 CE
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