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These alternately beveled knives were recovered from the Bell village site in Comanche County during the 1984 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school. Repeated sharpening on alternate sides created bevels. All are made of Alibates agatized dolomite from the Canadian River valley in the Texas panhandle. This suggests either trade with people further south or travel by people to the Texas panhandle. The Bell site is a Middle Ceramic period Wilmore complex site occupied by people who gardened, fished, and hunted, primarily bison, in south central Kansas and north central Oklahoma.
Date: 1000-1500 CE
Item Number: 510150
Call Number: 14CM407
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 510150
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Knife - Beveled
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Alibates
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Wilmore
Places - Counties - Comanche
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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