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This cache of ten bifaces was collected from Kearny County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2003. A cache is a group of items stored hidden for future use, meant for trade, or had some other significance we today do not know. These small bifaces are made of chert, quartzite, basalt, and Smoky Hill silicified chalk, which outcrops in western Kansas and Nebraska.
Date: Unknown
Item Number: 510204
Call Number: 14KY111 2003.G Bork donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 510204
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Biface
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Cache
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Basalt
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Smoky Hill Jasper
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Kearny
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
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