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This knife was one of nine chipped stone knives found atop a sandstone outcrop in Russell County. It is made of Smoky Hill silicified chalk, a type of chert that outcrops in western Kansas and north into Nebraska. Archeologists believe that knives shaped like this one could have been used for bison butchering. It is unknown if these knives were forgotten or deliberately left atop that sandstone outcrop.
Date: Unknown
Item Number: 513453
Call Number: 14RU306-2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 513453
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Knife - Harahey
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Sandstone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Smoky Hill Jasper
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Russell
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
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