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This bone digging stick tip fragment was recovered from the Bell village site in Comanche County during the 1984 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school. It was used to dig holes and plant seeds. It has a beveled bottom for working in the soil and was attached to a handle at the top. 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: 510154
Call Number: 14CM407-4730 6" x 1.75"
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 510154
Agriculture
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Gardening
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Bone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Digging Stick Tip
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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