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These shaped Dakota sandstone artifacts may have once been used as gaming stones or had another unknown purpose. They were collected from the excavations during the 1977 and 1978 Kansas Archeology Training Program field schools at the Tobias site in Rice County. 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: 456762
Call Number: 14RC8
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 456762
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Sandstone
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
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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