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This large Archaic dart point is 11.3cm long and 5.4cm wide. It was collected from Elk County and donated in 1959 to the Kansas Historical Society. The dart point has a parallel stem. Dart points would be mounted to the dart foreshaft, which would in turn be connected to the dart shaft. The assembled dart would then be thrown with an atlatl (spearthrower).
Date: 8000-2000 BCE
Item Number: 446154
Call Number: 14EK 59.188.495 Hamilton Shaffer donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 446154
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point - Stemmed
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Elk
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Archaic, 7000 BCE - 1 CE
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