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This projectile point is a spear tip. It has a long flake scar called a flute on both sides of its base that suggests it is from the Early Paleoindian period. It was collected in Kansas and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1925. Not all artifacts fit into neat categories, but the fluted base, shape, size, and manufacturing qualities indicate it is very old. People that lived during the Paleoindian period were mostly highly mobile and living in small bands that hunted large game.
Date: 11000-12000 BCE
Item Number: 520776
Call Number: 25.42.1 Brower donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 520776
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point - Fluted
People - American Indians
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Paleoindian, >7000 BCE
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