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This artifact is an isolated Middle Ceramic period find from Hodgeman County. Archeologists use the term "isolated find" when only one artifact is found at a location. This artifact is either a triangular arrow point or a thin small biface. It was made of Alibates flint, a silicified or agatized dolomite from the Canadian River valley in the Texas panhandle.
Date: 1000-1500 CE
Item Number: 446426
Call Number: 14HO307-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 446426
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Biface
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Projectile Point - Triangular
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Alibates
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Hodgeman
Places - Other States - Texas
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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