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This mano was recovered from the surface of a Saline County archeological site and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2020. Manos were the upper, hand-held millstone used for grinding foods and pigments. Groundstone tools like this one are made by pecking a hard stone into a rough shape and then grinding and polishing it into its final state. The site was occupied during the Upper Republican and Smoky Hill phases during the Early and Middle Ceramic periods.
Date: 1-1500 CE
Item Number: 508759
Call Number: 14SA409 2020.B.341 Reed donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 508759
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Mano
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Sandstone
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Saline
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Early Ceramic, 1 - 1000 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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