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The individual sherds from this reconstructed pot section were recovered from excavations during the 1978 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Tobias site in Rice County. The pot has a high rim (approximately 2") and shows a black crust on some portions is likely burned food residue. Additionally, the pot has areas showing firing clouds, darkened areas on the surface of a vessel caused by uneven firing. The Tobias site is a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village that had dense artifact deposits, house remains, and numerous deep trash-filled storage pits. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: 1400-1700 CE
Item Number: 508798
Call Number: 14RC8-11808 7.5" x 6.5"
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 508798
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ceramic
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Vessel
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Tobias
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
People - American Indians - Tribes - Wichita
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
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