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These scrapers were recovered from the surface of a Smoky Hill aspect archeological site and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2020. The scrapers may have been hafted onto a handle and used to scrape hides. They would have required periodic resharpening. The site, in Saline County, was occupied during the Middle Ceramic period.
Date: 1000-1500 CE
Item Number: 508794
Call Number: 14SA406 2020.B.315 through .317 Reed donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 508794
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Scraper
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Florence
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Saline
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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