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These Archaic period dart points were collected from a Johnson County archeological site and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2003. The multicomponent (multiple occupations) site includes an earlier Nebo Hill occupation whose people gathered plants and hunted game. They had a distinctive style of dart points similar to the two on the left, and slightly less so than those on the right. Dart points were attached to the fore shaft of a throwing spear and propelled by using a spear thrower or atlatl. The Nebo Hill culture is thought by some archeologists to be ancestral to the Kansas City Hopewell culture.
Date: 4550-2900 BCE
Item Number: 519367
Call Number: 14JO354 2003.C.249 through .252 Roberts donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 519367
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Nebo Hill
Places - Counties - Johnson
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Archaic, 7000 BCE - 1 CE
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