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Thesedrills were recovered from the 1993 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Sharps Creek site, a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village in McPherson County. Drills were used to bore holes in softer materials than the drill itself, such as hides, shell, wood, or soft stone. The two drills on the left are made of Flint Hills region chert and the two drills on the right are of an unknown material.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 519810
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 519810
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Drill
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Florence
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Sharps Creek
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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