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These three abraders were excavated in 1935 from the Lamar site in Ottawa County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1971. The Smoky Hill phase occupation site had a single, almost square, house and four cache pits. Archeologists call these groundstone tools as they are shaped by grinding. The sandstone abraders could be used as pairs, one on each side, to smooth a wood shaft.
Date: 1000-1400 CE
Item Number: 450904
Call Number: 14OT304 71.138 Whiteford donation
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 450904
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Abrader
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Sandstone
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Smoky Hill
Places - Counties - Ottawa
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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