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This cache of flakes was recovered from the Thompson Gardens site in Cowley County. A cache is any items that have been stored or hidden for later use. Fourteen blades and flakes of Permian chert from a single core and ten flakes of local Florence chert, also from a single core, were recovered from a cache pit. The latter get their pinkish color as a result of the material being carefully heated before manufacturing to improve the chert's knapping qualities. Eleven blades and flakes are shown here. The site was a large Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village. Kansas Historical Society archeologists and crew excavated there during a salvage archeological investigation in 1995.
Date: 1400-1725 CE
Item Number: 474411
Call Number: 14CO1509-29 Feature 126
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 474411
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Cache
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Florence
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Permian Chert
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Counties - Cowley
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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