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This biface, extremely small yet quite refined, was recovered during excavations at the Sharps Creek site at the 1993 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school. A biface is a chipped stone tool that has been modified on both faces, or sides. This example may have been made a chert type called Alibates agatized dolomite, which outcrops in the Texas panhandle at the Canadian River valley. The Sharps Creek site is a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village in McPherson County.
Date: 1500-1800 CE
Item Number: 443611
Call Number: 14MP408-2346-2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 443611
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Biface
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Alibates
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Sharps Creek
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - McPherson
Places - Other States - Texas
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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