Chipped Stone Tools

Object/Artifact

St. Joseph Museums

Bag 1

Name/Title

Chipped Stone Tools

Entry/Object ID

2001.15.2492

Description

23BN1 Chipped stone tools complete/broken Flake blade knives Flake blade scraper/knives Gravers Scraper/knives Bifacial knives Points Side and end scrapers Biface chopper Recorded - kept distinct from first batch of typed c.s. tools Includes nine separate bags. Bag 1: Flake blade scrapers/knives recorded 19 artifacts 310: FFF 54"-60" (x7) 117: FF 6"-12" (x2) 312: FFF 66"-72" (x4) 320: EEE 18"-24" (x2) 200: FF 30"-36" (x3) 324: EEE 42"-48" Bag 2: Side scrapers -some complete -some broken -some on flakes recorded 19 artifacts 312: FFF 66"-72" (x4) 117: FF 6"-12" 310: FFF 54"-60" (x10) 303: FFF 12"-18" (x3) 324: EEE 42"-48" Bag 3: Flake blade knives recorded Three artifacts 312: FFF 66"-72" 332: EEE 90"-96" 324: EEE 42"-48" Bag 4: Misc chipped stone tools: biface chopper Recorded One artifact: 320: EEE 18"-24" Bag 5: Endscrapers -complete -broken Recorded Seven artifacts: 117: FF 6"-12" (x5) 330: EEE 78"-84" 320: EEE 18"-24" Bag 6: Scraper/knife not flakeblade Recorded Four artifacts: 117: FF 6"-12" (x3) 310: FFF 54"-60" Bag 7: Gravers -some on flakes -some on fragments Recorded Four artifacts 330: EEE 72"-84" 312: FFF 66"-72 310: FFF 54"-60" 324: EEE 42"-48" Bag 8: Bifacial knives -some fragments Recorded Two artifacts: 310: FFF 54"-60" 312: FFF 66"-72" Bag 9: Points Some fragments Recorded One artifact 312: No information

Collection

23BN1

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

Kaw Nation

Native American

Notes

See "Weblinks" for more information on Kaw Nation

Lexicon

Search Terms

Archaeological, 23BN1, King Hill, Lithics

Material

Stone

Web Links and URLs

Kaw Nation, STLCC.edu

Provenance

Notes

The King Hill Site (23BN1) is located in a residential area of the city of St. Joseph, Missouri. The archaeological site is situated on top of a high, west facing bluff overlooking the Missouri River Valley. It was excavated by members of the St. Joseph Chapter of the Missouri Archaeological Society and the Summer Field School of the University of Missouri - Columbia over a 10 day period in the summer of 1966 under a cooperative agreement with the St. Joseph Museum. Work was continued in the fall of that year and into the next by the St. Joseph Chapter. Additional work was conducted at the site by the University of Nebraska. Pottery and limited trade goods in the upper levels indicate a late Oneota, early historic occupation, possibly by the Kansa tribe, about AD 1700. The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1968 and a preliminary report was issued that same year. In 1972 further excavations, funded by the National Science Foundation, were undertaken by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Missouri Field School and the University of Nebraska excavations were directed by Dr. Dale R. Henning" (Cutler and Blake 1982). Information gathered from: http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/kinghill.html